This study was conducted to assess various environmental exposure measurements (total dust, ammonia and endotoxin) of poultry workers at the province of Isfahan, Iran. The results show that the workers who worked in enclosed systems of parent stock barns have the highest exposure to total and respirable dust: 21.3 +/- 3.2 and 4.6 +/- 0.9 mg/m3, respectively. In comparison with different ages of...

shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli (stec) are food-borne pathogens primarily associated with the consumption of contaminated ground beef and are an important food safety concern worldwide. stec has been found to produce a family of related cytotoxins known as shiga toxins (stxs). shiga toxins have been classified into two major classes, stx1 and stx2. a single strains of stec can produce st...

chicken infectious anaemia is a viral disease in young chickens which characterized by aplastic anaemia and immunosuppression. between january 2004 and july 2005, an unusual hemorrhage in subcutaneous and intramuscular tissues of broiler chickens at slaughter houses of mashhad, isfahan and tehran provinces were occurred. postmortem examination revealed severe hemorrhages in the wings and muscle...

marek's disease (md) is a common lymphoproliferative disease of chickens, usually characterized by mononuclear cellular infiltration in different organs. the disease is caused by a herpes virus and is transmissible. md has been a common, important problem for poultry industry worldwide, as well as, in our country, iran. the aim of present study was to have an estimation of the incidence of...

the objective of the present study was to evaluate the genetic structure and diversity of 16 generations of native fowls of west azerbaijan province, iran using the pedigree data collected between 1994 and 2012. inbreeding coefficient (f), pedigree completeness index (pci), parameters of the probability of gene origin and other parameters related to the genetic structure were estimated using th...

<p>Slaughter is a halal condition that can be consumed by land animals. That is, these animals are not without the slaughter process. Some broiler chicken owners still ignore slaughtering process in accordance with Islamic sharia. This research field research, namely conducted at location object of Cigasong Traditional Market, Majalengka Regency. In this method used interview.From it was ...

Iran is a developing country in Middle East which has experienced some political and economical turbulence during the past decades. Government of Iran, after the 1979 Islamic revolution, has devoted considerable resources on national health, including the pharmaceutical sector. As a result, health indicators have improved substantially over the past two decadesnd the availability and affordabil...

Iran is a developing country in Middle East which has experienced some political and economical turbulence during the past decades. Government of Iran, after the 1979 Islamic revolution, has devoted considerable resources on national health, including the pharmaceutical sector. As a result, health indicators have improved substantially over the past two decadesnd the availability and affordabil...