background: toxoplasmosis is a worldwide spread disease. the present study examined the prevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection among animals of ediblemeat (cattle and sheep) in chaharmahal va bakhtiari province (southwest of iran) in 2012. furthermore, we attempted for the first time to identify this parasite from the meat products in the province. methods: the tongue, brain, femur muscle an...

palatability includes plants physical and chemical property that encourages an animal selecta plant for grazing. this study is an attempt for intruducing an indicator for determining thepalatability of rangeland plants. to do this, the relationship between palatability and foragequality of rangeland plants in karsanak rangelands of the chaharmahal-va-bakhtiari provincewas studied. first, plant ...

this experiment was designed to evaluate the effect of phenolic components of scrophularia striata powder on feed intake, digestion and fermentation, rumination kinetic and rumen ecosystem in lori-bakhtiari sheep. in this experiment, 12 six months old lambs and average weight 30±1.5 kg were fed with 0 (control), 3 and 6 percent scrophularia striata for one month. feed intake, digestibility, rum...

chaharmahal and bakhtiari province is one of the 31 provinces of iran and located on the southwestern part of the country. its capital is shahrekord. it has an area of 16,332 square kilometers and a population of 857,910. to study of human development used the surplus biocappacity (sb) and human development index (hdi). this research accrued in the shahr-e-kord, boroojen, farsan, ardal, lordega...

Prevalence, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, and Distribution of Virulence Genes Involved in Biofilm Formation Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolated from Shahrekord Medical Centers, Chaharmahal Bakhtiari, Iran

Maedi-Visna (MV) virus and caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE) virus known as small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs) cause chronic diseases in susceptible animals. The main reservoirs of these viral agents are sheep and goat. In sheep, MV virus causes a disease as the same name of the virus. This is the first seroprevalence survey of SRLVs in sheep population of Khorasan-e-Razavi province in Iran...

Evidence of inbreeding depression is commonly detected from the fitness traits of animals, yet its effects on population growth rates of endangered species are rarely assessed. We examined whether inbreeding depression was affecting Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis sierrae), a subspecies listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Our objectives were to characterize ...