canine babesiosis is an important worldwide, tick-born disease caused by apicomplexan hemoparasitic from genus babesia. the aim of the present survey was to identify the current state of babesia infection in urban and rural dogs in ahvaz district, southwest of iran. for this reason, 200 rural dogs from 5 village around ahvaz and 200 urban dogs (stratified random sampling) referred to the vet...

Canine Babesiosis is an important worldwide, tick-born disease caused by apicomplexan hemoparasitic from genus Babesia. The aim of the present survey was to identify the current state of Babesia infection in urban and rural dogs in Ahvaz district, southwest of Iran. For this reason, 200 rural dogs from 5 village around Ahvaz and 200 urban dogs (stratified random sampling) referred to the veteri...

Abstract: The presence of dogs has been identified as a risk factor for human Leptospirosis. The aim of this study was the survey of the current state of leptospiral infection in dogs in Ahvaz. Sera from 100 rural dogs of villages around Ahvaz and 49 urban dogs referred to veterinary hospital of shahid Chamran University were detected for antibodies against serovars canicola, icterohaemorrhagia...

—The subject of prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) overpopulation is complex, and judgements of overpopulation may not be based on prairie dog population size or density. Caughley's (1981) model of animal overpopulation is applied here to prairie dogs to clarify the basis for a judgement of overpopulation in each of several cases. There are ecological components to all such cases, but a purely ...

Cryptosporidium parvum is a zoonotic protozoan parasite with a wide range of vertebrate hosts. The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of Cryptosporidium parvum in urban and rural dogs of the Ahvaz area. Faecal samples were collected randomly from 93 dogs between May 2005 and September 2007. The studied dogs were divided into two groups (urban and rural) and based on age int...

visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) is a serious health problem in some northern and south western parts of iran. the incidence of kala-azar caused by leishmania infantum has recently increased in nourabad-mamassani district of fars province, in the south of the country. this study was designed to determine the role of asymptomatic dogs as host reservoir of l. infantum in this new formed focus a...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of different time combinations of dexamethasoneand acetylcysteine on experimentally induced corneal ulcers in dogs. experimental corneal wounds werecreated surgically to the anterior one third of the cornea in the center of all eyes of 15 mixed breed dogs. the eyes were divided into five groups according to planned post-operative medications...

BACKGROUND: Clinical prostatic diseases occur in 80% of dogs over 5 and 95% over 9 years of age. . It seems that benign prostatic hyperplasia) BPH) affect Scottish terriers more severely than the other breeds. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to evaluate the changes of biochemical and hematological parameters in BPH dogs. METHODS: Blood samples were collected from 10 male dogs older than five year...