materials and methods: a total of 285 commercial and traditional dairy products as well as 267 pasteurized and raw milk samples were collected during one year. the samples were studied by culturing and the positive-culture samples were investigated using pcr techniques. results: the results of culture showed that 52 (9.42%) and 28 (5.07%) of the total 552 milk and dairy samples were positive fo...

background: brucellosis is still considered as one of the major zoonosis afflicting syrian health and economy. this disease is caused by members of the genus brucella which are gram-negative bacteria living facultatively within mammalian cells during infection. objectives: in this paper, a strategy was developed to introduce a new generation of binders called nanobodies (nbs) in our combat aga...

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Background:Yersinia is a genus in the family Enterobacteriaceae that its species includeYersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia intermedia, Yersinia frederiksenii, and Yersinia kristensenii. Among these species, Yersinia enterocolitica is the most important one that causes various diseases such as gastroenteritis, mesenteric lymph...

a vervet monkey (cercopithecus aethiops) housed at quarantine of razi vaccine and serum research institute died following a few days of sickness. multiple abscesses on the surface and inside the liver and enlargement of spleen with pinpoint white spot were the most prominent macroscopic features. we examined the organs of the dead monkey and yersinia enterocolitica was isolated. in histopatholo...

yersinia enterocolitis causes a wide spectrum of human diseases including gasteroentritis, which is the most frequent of its manifestation. other diseases and clinical syndromes resulting from yersinia enterocolitica are septicemia, mesenteric lymphadenitis, apendisitis, exudative pharyngitis, reactive artiritis, nodosum erythema and rarely reiter's syndrome. in many countries such as west...

The study presents the prevalence of Yersinia species in dunnok Prunella modularis from the sub-alpine zone of the Western Carpathians. Bacteria were detected from cloacal and pharyngeal swabs from 97 specimens using PCR assay. Yersinia enterocolitica showed the highest prevalence (47.4%) from among the determined Yersinia species. Yersinia species (except Y frederiksenii) were detected more fr...