Water quality data collection in shallow water areas can be a challenging task. Obstacles encountered in such environments include difficulty in covering large territories and the presence of inaccessible areas due to a variety of reasons such as a soft bottom or contamination. There is also a high probability of disturbing the test area while placing the sensors. This paper describes a NASA-fu...

Ostriches are susceptible to bacterial, fungal and parasitic diseases. One of the most commonstrategies to reduce microbial contamination in animal production systems is to identify microbesources. In this regard, a first critical component for comprehensive farm-to-fork strategies to reducethe burden of foodborne illness is the identification of the pathogenic fungi in foodstuffs with animalso...

background: organ transplant recipients can experience serious diseases from infections due to emerging and reemerging parasitic infections. this study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of intestinal parasites among renal transplant re-cipients of iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from june 2003 to august 2004 on renal transplant recipients in iran. a total of 706...

sunflower (helinathus annuus) is a susceptible host to the holoparasite hemp broomrape (orobanche ramosa) in central parts of iran, causing yield loss due to severe infestations. a field study was conducted in 2006 to evaluate the efficacy of glyphosate for controlling the parasitic weed hemp broomrape in sunflower. glyphosate was applied once or twice at five rates ranging from 0.075 to 0.450 ...

in this study parasitic infection of bobwhite and japanese quails were clarified in farms of garmsar city in province of semnan. forty quails from two breeds randomly were selected and they examined to identify all internal and external parasites .finding was shown that five percent of the quails examined harbored one or more species of helminthes. two cestodes, raillietina echinobothrida and r...

sixty sheep abomasums were randomly collected from shahrekord abattoir between april and september (2006). age and sex of the sheep were registered. all of the abomasums were transported to laboratory, nematodes, which were presented inside them, collected, and after calculating, their species and genus, were specified. abomasums that were contaminated by ostertagia or had gross damages were se...

ostriches are susceptible to bacterial, fungal and parasitic diseases. one of the most commonstrategies to reduce microbial contamination in animal production systems is to identify microbesources. in this regard, a first critical component for comprehensive farm-to-fork strategies to reducethe burden of foodborne illness is the identification of the pathogenic fungi in foodstuffs with animalso...