The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and distribution of canine dirofilariosis from different districts of the Mazovian Province in central-eastern Poland. 462 dogs aged from 1.5-14 years were examined for dirofilariosis. Blood samples were examined for the presence of microfilariae using the Knott method, as well as the method of Kingston and Morton, after centrifugation in ha...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from clinically diagnosed patients with detectable Angiostrongylus cantonensis-specific antibodies (n = 10), patients with clinically suspected cases that tested negative for A. cantonensis-antibodies (n = 5) and patients with cerebral gnathostomiasis (n = 2) and neurocysticercosis (n = 2) were examined by a single-step polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method us...

background: feline hemotropic mycoplasmas are parasites of erythrocytes and include three species, mycoplasma haemofelis, candidatus mycoplasma haemominutum and candidatus mycoplasma turicensis. diagnosis of the infection with these microorganisms can be carried out using conventional assays such as blood cytology. however, these assays have a low accuracy and a high rate of false-positive resu...

Background and Aims: The Inclusion Body Hepatitis disease (IBH) is one of the prevalent illnesses in our country these days and reported from different regions of Iran. In addition to its fatality, the importance of this disease is disturbing the vaccination program in poultry, especially broiler chickens, against other diseases like infectious bursal disease (IBD) and Newcastle disease (ND). T...

streptococcus agalactiae , s. dysgalactiae and s. uberis are gram-positive bacterial pathogens that affect cows in dairy herds. these are considered as the major causes of economic losses of dairy producers without a control program. to reveal the role of these agents in inducing subclinical mastitis in dairy cattle in ahvaz, 100 cmt-positive milk samples and 20 cmt-negative milk samples were c...

introduction:  the aim of the present study was to investigate the presence and the frequency of eaec as etiologic agent of diarrhea in shiraz. enteroaggregative e. coli (eaec) is increasingly recognized as a cause of often persistent diarrhoea in children and adults in both developing and developed countries, and have been identified as the cause of several outbreaks worldwide.   materials and...

Nosema disease is one of the most important diseases of adult honey bees worldwide. It is known as silent killer because there are no characteristic symptoms. The aim of the present study was to determine prevalence of Nosema species in various towns of Kurdistan province in Iran. A multiplex polymerase chain reaction (multiplex-PCR) was performed for identification of Nosema ...