Bacteriological and histopathological investigations were conducted on ovine and caprine aborted foeti, ten each,

The incidence of gross ovarian diseases were survid by studying 500 specimens obtained from Babylon slaughter house. The results of the study indicated that the incidence of the ovarian hypofunction (15.2%) was the highest, followed by cystic ovaries (2.8%), whereas the incidence of the ovarobursal adhesions was low (1.8%), while that of the parovarian cysts and cystic corpora lutea were lowest (1%). Additionally, the dimensions and content of the normal ovaries were included in the present study.

The local study was targeting to investigate the biological antibacterial activity for gradiate concentrations of a local honey bees (125,250, 375 and 500 mg/ml) were tested for five type of bacteria, two of which are gram positive (staphylococcusaureus , streptococcus spp.) and three of them were negative bacteria ( Esherichia coli , salmonella spp. , pseudomonas aeruginosa) by using agar well diffusion method and tube dilution method.
The results of agar well diffusion method showed that the bacteria of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus Spp. were the most sensitive to honey dilutions, while E.coli ,Salmonella Spp. showed moderate sensitivity . Pseudomonas aeruginosadid not show any sensitivity. The result also showed that the

This study aimed to recognize the different effects of administration of sodium tungstate in developmental indices of the offspring till weaning. Four groups of Albino Wistar pregnant female rats were used, the first one was control while the remaining three groups intubated with Na- tungstate 75, 150 and 300 mg/ kg/ day respectively since the first day of parturition throughout 21 days. Results referred to an elevation in weight gain of rat dams treated with 75 mg/ kg while weight gain of offspring elevated in both doses of 75 and 300 mg/ kg throughout 21 days, teeth and eye orifice were observed in doses of 75 and 300 mg/ kg faster than control while the mean of ovary weight elevated in both 75 and 300 mg/ kg however the dose 300 mg/ k

This study involved effect of alcoholic extract of Cardaria draba (L.) Desv.
Plant on Hymenolepis nana at dose (50,100,250) mg/ml respectively and
acomparison between effect of the extract and mebendazole drug in all
experiments. The results of these experiments were indicated that the out put
rates of the egg of H. nana in the Faeces were effected the efficacy of extracts
and drug treatments were varied in the daily counts through the experiments and
it appeared that they were proportional increasing with the increasing of the dose
they are (91.5%, 86.7%, 86.2%) on days (8, 9, 10) at (250) mg / kg dose for the
Fresh plant and (89.7%,87.7%,83.9%) for the drug part respectively. The
mebendazole drug appeared the

        تضمن البحث دراسة شعاعية لمعرفة تأثير الزرع الذاتي (Autogenous Graft) لنخاع العظم على سرعة غلق الصفيحة المشاشية القاصية لعظم الفخذ المثقبة تجريبيا باستعمال تقنية فمستر المحورة للصفيحة المشاشية في 6 كلاب من السلالة المحلية قسمت عشوائيا الى مجموعتين ضمت كل مجموعة 3 كلاب الاولى اجريت عليها عملية تثقيب الصفيحة المشاشية باستخدام تقنية فمستر المحورة و كانت هي مجموعة السيطرة اما المجموعة الثانية (

This study was carried out to evaluate the ability of Lactobacillus
acidophilus to prevent and treat Salmonella typhimurium in puppies. In vitro
antibiotic sensitivity test of S. typhimurium was made and the result revealed
that Ciprofloxacin is the most effective.Isolation of L. acidophilus from the
intestinal tract of the normal dogs and also revealed that all Lactobacillus strains
were biochemically identical to standard strain. A bacterial strain that had high
ability to inhibit the growth of S. typhimurium in vitro with high ability to
adhere to intestinal epithelial cells and tolerate the low pH and bile salts was
chosen for the experimental study.
Twenty puppies were divided into four groups and treated

This study was carried out at the poultry farm of the college of
veterinary medicine / Baghdad University during 12/5/2004 – 6/7/2004 to
study the effect of substitution of smut wheat instead of intact wheat in
poultry ration at the following levels (0%, 25% , 50% and 100%)
representing the following groups (T0, T1, T2 and T3), respectively. Physical
treatment was obtained for smut wheat by polishing the seed by sand to
remove the superficial fungal growth. Each group was sub divided into two
sub groups, one was physically treated with sand and the other was not
treated to study the hematology traits at 28 and 56 days of the experiment.
Characterristics included in this study were PCV, Hb, RBC, WBC,
differ

A three species of clam Unio tigridis, Pseudontopsis euphraticus and
Anodonta sp. were collected from Al-Habaniya lake, Al-Angor region/Iraq
.The animals were exposed to three concentrations of mercury :0.1, 0.2 and
0.4 mg/L . First group of animals were exposed for three weeks ,second
group for two weeks and the third group for one week. At the end of the
exposure period, the animals were dissected ,then the mantle removed for the
further studies on proteins and enzymes. The results were :
1- Total protein concentration in the mantle decreased in the three
species of clam exposed to mercury. It was observed that a
prominent effect of mercury on the electrophoretic bands of
proteins with the decrease in the

This study aims to apply a new procedure in preparation of anthraxin from
cell wall extracts of a virulent Bacillus anthracis strain 34F2 (Sterne)
.Anthraxin was evaluated for potential use as skin testing agent to measure
cell-mediated immunity. Guinea pigs were immunized and boosted
subcutaneously with Sterne live veterinary anthrax vaccine. Two weeks after
the booster dose, animals were skin tested with the antigen which recorded
15.6mm as a mean of erythema and 2.5 mm difference of thickness as
compared to the control. Histological changes corresponded with the delayed
type of hypersensitivity (DTH) in which the changes involved
infiltration of inflammatory cells particularly macrophages, neutrophiles and

Isolation &identification of Newcastle disease virus from wild pigeons
inhabiting University of Baghdad (Al-Khwarizmi College of engineering)
where velogenic and devastating infection of birds was encountered. Chicken
embryos fibroblasts (CEF) were used for virus isolation (from infected
spleen and lungs) and propagation. Viral cytopathogenic effect was noticed
on infected (CEF) cell culture within (24) hr post inoculation. The virus was
identified by heamagglutination inhibition (HI) test using reference anti
NDV serum.

Castration was performed on 46 pigs aged between (2-8) months using open and closed methods

In order to study the vaginal defensive mechanisms in ewes, vaginal smears and biopsies were collected from eight adult Awasi ewes. The biopsies samples were processed by the routine histological methods and stained by H & E and PAS stains, while the smears samples were stained with MB. Samples were examined under light microscope. The resent study revealed that the vaginal wall lacks many important constituents, among these were the vaginal glands, goblet cells, muscularis mucosa and lymphatic nodules. And as the vagina was the nearest organ to the external environment and as it receives the male copulatory organ, so it is more liable organ to be infected by external pathogens. On the contrary, the vagina has special compensatory hi

The aim of this study is to identify the gastrointestinal parasites and Protozoa in stray dogs.  The current study includes seven genera of intestinal helminths and protozoa as follows: one cestode (Taenia sp. 29.1%), four nematodes (Hookworm 86.6%, Toxocara canis 67.5%, Trichuris vulpis 51.6% and Strongyloides sp. 5%) and two protozoa (Giardia sp. 24.1% and Cryptosporidium sp. 20.8%) from 120 fecal samples of dogs were collected from different regions of Baghdad during the period from February to July 2014. The results revealed that the intestinal parasites appeared in all months of the study; however, the high infection rate was during the winter months.

     تناولت هذه  الدراسة معرفة التأثيرات السمية لمادة حليب التين في الفئران حيث استخرجت الجرعة القاتلة الوسطية بعد حقنها داخل الخلب والتي كانت مساوية إلى 30 ملغرام/ كغم من وزن الجسم، ثم عملت 4 تخافيف من مادة حليب التين وهي 1 و3 و4 و5 مليغرام/ كغم من وزن الجسم واختبرت على أربع مجاميع من الفئران بالحقن داخل الخلب وبجرعة مقدارها 0.2 مليليتر يومياً لمدة ثلاثين يوماً، بعدها أجريت الصفة التشريحية لحيوانات ال

     The present study was carried out for the identification and molecular characterization of Salmonella spp. isolated from cattle at abattoir by biochemical, serotyping and virulence gene based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques. Eleven Salmonella were isolated from cattle at abattoir, these isolates were cultured and biochemically characterized by double checking with a conventional method and by KB011 Hi Salmonella TM identification kit then confirmed by serotyping and testing for detection of the invA virulence gene by PCR by using a Salmonella-specific 506 bp invA gene amplicon. The biochemical and serotyping results revealed that the 1

Twenty Vervets monkeys were used to study the effect of sexes and ages on morphohistological and hematological pictures. The study revealed that age and sex affect blood values. Vervet monkeys registered a significant dominancy of hematological parameters in adult males. Erythrocytes of vervet monkeys were of macrocytic type, howell-Jolly bodies were observed. Rouleaux formation, Anisocytosis, Aggregation, and Agglutination were not observed. A significant predominancy of neutrophils in females and lymphocytes in males was recorded. The neutrophil was well defined, large with ring-shaped highly segmented nucleus. Band neutrophils were not observed in peripheral blood.  Eosinophils recorded high values. Circulating leukocytes acted a

A present study was carried out to investigate the effects of Estradiol benzoate 2 (mg/ml) hormone doses on the body weight and blood picture of Turkeys birds through studying the following parameters: body weight, RBC count , total WBC, MCV, MCH, MCHC, and platelet PLT. Forty growing Turkeys (30 days age) weighting between (250-350)gm were randomly divided into four groups (ten each group) treated as follows: Turkeys in the first group were injected with single dose of Estradiol benzoate (1 mg) on the first day of experiment (30 day post hatching) subcutaneously in the neck and termed as G1 group, the Turkeys in the 2nd group (G2) were injected Estradiol benzoate (2 mg) on the first day of experiment subcutaneously in the neck while the

     This study was carried out to examine the effect of Fructooligosaccharide as a source of prebiotic, and commercial dry yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as a source of probiotic and their combination in different level as a source of synbiotic. The experiment was conducted in the fish laboratory of Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Sulaimani University. The trials lasted for three months after 21 days of adapting period 120 common carp fingerlings with an average weight of 20 ±2 gm, were used  to test the effect of different levels of the Fructooligosaccharide, yeast and their combination. In T1 fish were fed a diet with 2.5 gm/kg Fructooligosaccharide, in T2

It is well known that monotherapy does not provide therapeutic response in all hypertensive. Some
patients show an excellent response, while in others there is a poor response. Combination
antihypertensive therapy is administered when blood pressure is inadequately controlled by
monotherapy to achieve a balanced and additive antihypertensive effect with minimum adverse effects.
Both angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and dihydropyridine type of calcium antagonists
are well established and widely used in monotherapy. An understanding of differences in the
mechanism of action of these agents allows a logical approach for the use of these agents as a
combination therapy. This study was designed to evaluate t

To identify the bacterial isolation from dogs have cancer diseases, the samples were (throat swab and urine) have
been taken from (64) dogs suffering from different cancer diseases includes (38) females and (26) males.
The result of throat swab as were follows: E.coli (50%), Actenomyces pyogenes (40.6 %) , Beta Heamolytic
Streptococcus group D (21.8 %) , Staphylococcus aureus (21.8 %), Klebsiella spp also Actenomyces viscosus
(18.7%), S.epidermidis(12.5%), Beta Heamolytic Streptococcus groupG (9.3 %) , Proteus mirabilis (9.3 %) ,
Beta Heamolytic Streptococcus group B (6.2 %) , Bacillus subtilis (6.2 %), Micrococcus (6.2%) ,
Pseudomonas aerugenosa also Proteus vulgaris (3.1%).
While the urine samples of infected doges

     The current study was carried out at the college of veterinary medicine, University of Baghdad, for three months. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of different thawing method of frozen minced red meat to reduce its bacterial load. Four thawing methods were used where the tap water at 18 °C for two hours was used in the first method, while the hot water at 40 °C for 1.5 hours was used in the second method and in the third method the frozen minced meat samples were left at room temperature (28 °C) for two hours, where as in the fourth method the frozen meat samples were stored inside the refrigerator at 4 °C for 20 hours. Data revealed that there were  significant differences (P&

The histological study of the pecten oculi of falcon eyeball is consists from 11-12 pecten plates connected to the pectin bridge. The pectin oculi extending from optic nerve toward the virtous body. Its characterization are highly visualization and continuous capillary network which infiltrated by melanocyte. The pecten oculi without muscles and nerve fibers. The study revealed that cornea of falcon eyeball was characterized by fine curvature, translucent with peripheral thickness. The cornea occupied the quarter of fibrous tunica. It consists from five layers: - anterior corneal epithelium, Bowman's membrane, stroma, Descement's membrane and endothelium.

Sixty cows were included in this study which was conducted in Baquba for the period from April 2011 to October 2011. They were clinically diagnosed as having bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) infection. Blood samples were collected from infected cows before, after treatment, and after recovery. Additionally, 30 healthy cows were included as control group. Sera were separated and submitted for the determination of phosphorus, glucose, cholesterol and pH levels. Statistical analysis of biochemical values revealed significant decrease in serum cholesterol levels in infected cows as compared to control group (P<0.05). Furthermore, the diseased cows showed low levels of pH (acidosis), thus when they treated by intravenous injection of 5% sodium

In order to achieve precise diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in suspected cases of aborted women and infants with abnormal clinical manifestation, 1725 serum samples consisting of 1450aborted women and 77 infants were tested by enzyme linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA), using IgG, IgM and IgA platellat oxogondii kits, 865 (56.64%) were found positive, 848 ( 58.48% ) were found in aborted women and 15 (22.07%) infants with a significant differences (P≤ 0.05).The immunoglobulin IgM , were detected in 72 (8.49%)cases of aborted women, IgM with IgG were found in 44 (61.11%) and with IgA in two (2.77%) cases ,whereas found in three(17.64%)cases of infants. While IgA were found in 77(9.08%) cases of aborted women, and 6 (35.22%) infants. IgG was

This study was carried out to evaluate seven types of herbs being: black pepper seeds (Piper nigrum), celery seeds (Apium graveolens), cubeb seeds (Piper cubeba), camphor seeds (Cinnamomuum camphora), myrrh (Commiphora mol mol), fenugreek seeds (Trigonella foenum- graecum) and seeds of Lepidium sativum. The antibacterial activity of alcoholic extracts of these plants was performed on gram- positive and gram- negative bacteria isolated from human respiratory tract infections including : S. aureus ,S. pneumoniae, M. antarcticus, Corynebacterium spp. and coagulase- negative Staphylococci (CNS). Gram –negative bacteria included: K. oxytoca, K. pneumoniae and N. meningitidis, P. aeruginosa and E. coli. We studied the bacterial sensitivity t

Experimental induction of vitamin E and selenium deficiency by deficient diet was carried out on Awassi ewes and their newborn lambs. The clinical signs were characterized by sudden death in 4 lambs out of 14 lambs in deficient group and other lambs showed a variable signs included inability to suckle, arched back, weakness, dullness, emaciation and recumbency. Serum selenium and vitamin E levels of these lambs were 0.01 ppm and 0.34 mg/L respectively. The clinical signs in ewes included loss of body weight and loss of wool, Weakness, dullness and recumbency. Serum selenium and vitamin E levels of these ewes were 0.02 ppm and 0.61mg/L respectively. It was concluded that vitamin E and selenium are essential antioxidants and their deficien

Bacterial examination was done on 50 dogs suffering from ear infection. Dogs examined include both sexes and their ages were between 5 months to 5 years, In the other hand 35 ear smears from male and female human in ages between 7-40 years were also taken . Isolation and identification of bacterial isolates were done to determine species of zoonotic bacteria in human and dogs, also study of antibiotics sensitivity to these isolates. We identified 137 bacterial isolates from dogs ear belonge to 9 bacterial spp. which are : S. aureus( 27.7%) , Klebsiella spp. ( 13.8%) , E. coli ( 13.1%) , Streptococcus spp. ( 12.4%) ,P. haemolytica ( 8.2%) , P. vulgaris ( 7.2%) , S. epidermidis ( 6.5%) , Salmonella spp. ( 5.8%) , P. mirabilis ( 5.1%) . In

       Thirty sheep in a flock suffering from fascioliasis were selected for the trial . Clinical findings, hematological, biochemical and fecal investigations were conducted. These animals were equally divided into two groups, the 1^st group was given the flukecide triclabendazole alone, at a rate of 12mg/kg body weight orally and the 2^nd group was given the same dose orally together with dexamethasone at a rate 0.5 mg / kg body weight I/M. Results showed that the 2^nd group gave the quickest and the best response in the treatment. This could be explained that the use of corticosteroid assisted the triclabendazole in preventing immune damage and fibroplasias inflicted by the l