We report a case of a 38-year-old woman with recurrent spontaneous abortion who gave birth to a thrombocytopenic neonate after immunotherapy with husband’ s leucocytes. A 38-year-old healthy female consulted the Department of Immunology and Histocompatibility Center in Thessaloniki. Medical history taken from the woman revealed two abortions. She was pregnant in 1999 and aborted at approximatel...

A case was presented with the report of abortion in a jersey crossbred cow about 4 th month of gestational age. Samples were collected from aborted cow and aborted foetus. The samples were found to be negative for Brucella spp., Leptospira spp., and Camphylobacter spp. Cultural and biochemical characters identified as Trueperella pyogenes. Further, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) using gene spe...

In May 2007, a suborder Shoka deer calf about one month of age was found in a preserved area of Arasbaran in the East Azerbaijan province. From an ecological view point, the Arasbaran area is uniquely labelled as a reserve biosphere. he calf had diarrhea that recovered after treatment. During rearing, The calf received pasteurized- homogenized milk from market as well as milk of a goat. After 3...

9-beta-d-Arabinofuranosyladenine (ara-A) was deaminated to 9-beta-d-arabinofuranosylhypoxanthine by adenosine deaminase present in fetal bovine serum, newborn calf serum, and calf serum used to supplement tissue culture media. Heating newborn calf serum or calf serum for 12 h at 56 C completely eliminated the enzymatic deamination of ara-A. The deaminase activity associated with fetal bovine se...

An outbreak of abortion affecting multiparous cows was associated with Hobi-like pestivirus infection. Viral RNA and antigens were detected in the tissues of two aborted fetuses. Molecular assays for other common abortogenic agents tested negative. At the genetic level, the Hobi-like pestivirus displayed the closest relatedness to Italian, Australian, and South American viruses, whereas it dive...

Investigation was conducted on (90) serum samples, (47) samples were collected from aborted cows and (43) samples from non-aborted cows from Babylon governorate, there were 7, 14.89% cases infected with Brucellaabortus by iELISA test while 10, 21.27% and 9, 19.14% cases infected with Brucellaabortus by Complement fixation test and rose Bengal plate test respectively from infected cow, there wer...