BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite infects most of warm-blooded animals, including birds. Turkeys are one of these animals which might be infected by this parasite. Little is known about the prevalence of T. gondii in turkeys in Iran. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to evaluate the rate of Toxoplasma infection in turkeys...

A significant increase in demand among the population for turkey meat makes farming one of most competitive and economically profitable agribusinesses fastest growing segment poultry farming. The investment attractiveness turkeys increases annually by 20–30 %, profitability is from 20 to 25 %. Consumer demand, which ensures a constant sales market, sufficient fodder base, availability labor res...

In 1976, the Royal College of Physicians published neurological criteria of death. The memorandum stated that-after preconditions and exclusion criteria were met-the absence of brainstem function, including apnoea testing, would suffice. In the USA, many experts felt that brain death could be only determined by demonstrating death of the entire brain. In the history of further refinement of UK ...

301 THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO) of the United Nations describes live animal transport as “ideally suited for spreading disease,” given that animals may originate from different herds or flocks and are “confined together for long periods in a poorly ventilated stressful environment.”1 Given the associated “serious animal and public health problems,” the Federation of Veterinarian...

The performance of animal in a given environment differs between and within species, breeds strains genotypes, as result genetic variation. A total 200 turkeys comprising 50 exotic (Nicholas white) each Nigerian locally adapted (black, white lavender) was used to investigate variation body weight some biometric traits turkey at the Turkey Breeding unit Teaching Research Farm Ambrose Alli Univer...

This study was conducted to compare three non-linear growth models (Logistics, Gompertz and Von Bertalanffy) in describing the of 360 turkeys genotypes (exotic, crossbred local). The curve parameters - A, B K for each model were estimated turkey using NLIN procedure (Marquart algorithm) Bayesian approach with a fixed-effect model. best fit also estimated. A comparison done among Akaike Informat...

1 World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 3 World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 School of Public Health, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 5 University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, and London School of Hygien...