Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is a highly contagious disease of chickens caused by Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). In turkeys, however, infection with classical virulent IBDV strains lead only to subclinical forms of the disease. We attempted to isolate IBDV from the bursa of turkey and characterize it. Amplification of a 743-bp fragment of VP2 gene by RT-PCR and restriction analysis ...

the aim of this study was comparative evaluation of iran scientific output in the field of food science and technology with five countries including ireland, turkey, egypt, argentina and malaysia during 1990-2010 in the web of science. the number of indexing scientific outputs in this database show that ireland, argentina and turkey ranked sequentially. articles have the largest share of scient...

Rabies is a threat in all parts of the world where animal reservoirs persists, including Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Rabies experts from seven Middle East and Eastern European countries (Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine) met for two days in Istanbul, Turkey (June 8-9, 2010), to exchange information on the epidemiological situation concerning human and animal ra...

background biosurfactants are surface-active compounds produced by some microorganisms. objectives in this study, we collected surface skin samples from breast of poultry (chicken, turkey, and, quail) and screened for biosurfactant-producing bacteria. we also determined the genera of cultured strains. materials and methods 33 hemolytic bacterial strains (15, 11, and 7 isolates from chicken, tur...

Osteoporosis is an important health problem with serious consequences. Evaluation of osteoporosis scientific output from Arab countries has not been explored and there are few internationally published reports on research activity about osteoporosis. The main objectives of this study were to analyze the research output originating from Arab countries and 3 Middle Eastern non-Arab countries, par...

d Shahram Agah Iran Igor Aurer Croatia Salman Baig Pakistan Zaid Baqain Jordan Arnulf Baumann Austria Farzad Borumandi Austria Luca Campana Italy Paolo Castellucci Italy Ales Celar Austria Lucia Cevidanes United States of America Bernard Cohen United States of America Ian Cooper United Kingdom Adriano Crismani Austria Gholamreza Dan Germany Jan de Lange Netherlands Willian de Melo Brazil Tim De...

the enormous changes in international system after the soviet :union: collapse led to a power vacuum and unprecedented competition of regional and trans-regional powers in central asia and caucasus. as a result of these phenomena, any actions by regional and international powers were viewed in the context of regional rivalries. therefore, this fact brought several important obstacles in front o...

1 Department of Physics, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, P.O. Box 969, Oromiyeh, Iran 2Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Çankaya University, 06530 Ankara, Turkey 3 Institute of Space Sciences, P.O. Box MG-23, 76900 Magurele-Bucharest, Romania 4Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, S...

33 Algorithmic Analysis of Clinical and Neuropsychological Data in Localization-Related Epilepsy Masoud Latifi-Navid, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Kost V. Elisevich, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Spectrum Health System, Grand Rapids, MI, USA Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Control and Int...