Fascioliasis is a zoonotic disease caused by Fasciola spp. We report five serologically and molecularly confirmed cases in an emerging region Iran. A retrospective, case series study, performed Lorestan Province, west of Iran between January 2015 June 2016. From 1256 patients examined, 16 had positive serum ELISA. Five were approved as infected with fasciolosis using stool exam PCR. Age ranged ...

The Booroola fecundity gene (FecB) and growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) gene belong to the transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) superfamily. The mutations of these genes have additive effects on the prolificacy in sheep. The aim of the present study was to determine the possible mutations of FecB and FecG(H) genes in Lory sheep breed of the Lorestan province, Iran. Sixty blood samples wer...

BACKGROUND Leucocytozoonosis is a disease of birds caused by obligate intracellular protozoa of the genus Leucocytozoon. We determined the prevalence of Leucocytozoon spp. using light and transmission electron microscopy in domestic birds in southwest of Iran. METHODS A total of 825 blood smears from 275 birds were examined for presence of infection. The structure morphology of Leucocytozoon ...

Hassan Ahmadvand*, Akram Noori, Maryam Ghasemi Dehnoo, Shahrokh Bagheri, Rooh Angiz Cheraghi Razi Herbal Researches Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khoram Abad, Iran Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khoram Abad, Iran Department of Biochemistry, Payame Noor University, Mashhad branch, Iran Department of Biology, Science an...

ecosystem of arid and semiarid regions of the world, much of the country lies in the sensitive and fragile environment canvases are that factors in the extinction and destruction are easily destroyed in this paper, artificial neural networks (anns) are introduced to obtain improved regional low-flow estimates at ungauged sites. a multilayer perceptron (mlp) network is used to identify the funct...