This study was conducted to investigate the dominate aerobic bacterial agents causing diarrhea in children
and study its susceptibility against some antibiotics.
For this goal, 460 stool specimens were collected from infected children aged from 1 month to 5 years at
Diwaniya teaching hospital for obstetrics and pediatrics from April up to November 2004, study include
also the evaluation of some factors (age, sex, and residence area) on infected with diarrhea.
Samples were cultured on different selective and differential media include blood agar, MacConkey agar
and S-S agar and identified them by using biochemical tests with ensuring the results by API-20E system
and serological tests ..
Results showed the obtainin

Two isolates of Lactobacillus acidophilus were isolated from locally homemade soft cheese and identified in accordance with their main features as described by bergeys manual of determinative bacteriology .Agar well diffusion bioassay was used for the evaluation of antimicrobial activity of cell free supernatant (culture filtrates) of Lactobacillus acidophilus isolates against the sensitive strain Lactobacillus acidophilus R0052 and the diameter of the inhibition zone was proportional to the bacteriocin concentration. The antimicrobial activity of the bacteriocin was proportional to the reciprocal of the highest dilution factor producing a detectable zone of inhibition . The storage temperature of the crude bacteriocin had a significant(

The current study was carried out to investigate the immunological and hematological changes due to local transplantation of human umbilical cord-mesenchymal-stem cells (HUC-MSCs) and scaffold-stem cells (SSCs) into the injured radial nerve. Therefore, three equal groups of dogs were subjected to this study; experimental (EG), positive control (PCG) and negative control (NCG). At 1st week, dogs of EG were showed an obvious mobility dysfunction. At 2nd and 4th weeks, there were apparent improvements reported on general and physical activities as well as functional ability of forelimb with the presence of slight lameness that was cured completely at 5th week. Regarding to immunobiomarkers, insignificant differences were showed at 1st week.

An experiment has been carried out to evaluate a diatomaceous earth on performance and egg traits of Japanese quail. The diatomaceous earth used in the current trial was food grade which produced in Germany and is listed Generally Regarded As Safe. Eighty layer Japanese quail were randomly divided into 2 treatments from 16-20 weeks of age. Each treatment consisted 4 replicates (pens) of 10 birds each. The first treatment (control) contained a standard recommended diet with no added diatomaceous earth. The second treatment was the basal diet of the first treatment plus 1.5% diatomaceous earth in the feed. Feed and water were offered ad libitum from days 1 to 140. Egg production per pen was recorded daily. Egg traits were measured at the e

This study was designed to determine for the first time in Iraq the clinical and biochemical

The aim of this study was to reveal the blood supply of the intestinal tract in male adult turkey. Five healthy birds were collected from local suppliers at Baaqoba province. All birds were euthanized and their coelomic cavity was dissected. The descending aorta was cannulated and injected with colored latex, and then the course of arteries along the intestinal tract investigated. Small intestine received the blood by celiac artery, cranial and caudal mesenteric artery. Celiac was split into two branches right and left, the right branch of celiac artery supplied the proventriculus, gizzard, duodenum, pancreas, jejunum and distal part of ileum and cecum while left branch supply the stomach. The crania mesenter

Using the rose Bengal test 114 blood samples collected from dogs , and tested for Brucella antibodies , (30.7 % ) were found positive for Brucella antibodies while (64.3 % ) were found negative for Brucella antibodies .
Key words : Brucella antibodies , dogs .

In present experiment , study was done on the pathological and residual effect of malathion in mice 50 white mice randomly divided into 3 group : 1^st group including (20)mice was given single oral dose .1.5 ppm in drinking water 2^nd group contain (20) mice given single dose 1.5 ppm malathion orally in drinking water and repeated the same dose at 2^nd and 3^rd week i.e (three repeated doses), the 3^rd group (10) mice act as control group .The long of experiment was 60 days , the following parameter were done .

1- Clinical Signs: treated group 1^st and 2^nd groups showed nausea and diarrhea

2- Pathological changes : 1^st and 2^nd gro

    The aim of present study to investigate the prevalence of Cryptosporidium Spp. in broiler
chickens in some regions of Karbala province and study the effect of months, sex and age on the
prevalence of parasite. The results were indicated that the overall percentage of infection was
20.71%. The highest rate of infection in Al-Husseiniya which amounted to 22.41% and the lowest
in the Ain Al-Tamur region (18.86%), while the highest rate of infection was in March which
amounted to 30% and the least in May month reaching 11.42%, and by age groups was the highest
rate of infection at the age of five weeks (28.72%) and the lowest at the age of two weeks (13.18%),
and significant difference was recor

This study was conducted to investigate the adverse effect of aflatoxine contaminated ration on immune response induced by N D vaccine in broilen and the effect of adding vit C in drinking water in reducing the aflatoxine immune supportive effect.
A total of 75 day old broiler chicken were divided randomly in to three equal groups , the first group was feed aflatoxine free ration while second and third groups were feed on aflatoxine contaminated ration at 6 day of age, in addition to that the third group have received vit C in a drinking water (125 mg/litter). The birds were immunized twice with ND vaccine at 10, 20 day of age and ELISA test was carried out to estimate the humeral immunity response at 6, 19, 31, days of age.
All th

This study was conducted to evaluate the Effect of time of using feed
blocks (FB) as supplementary feed on the weight changes and reproductive
performance of Awassi yearling ewes depend on crop residues as basal diet. .
Sixty Awassi yearling ewes (mean live weight 39.51 kg) aged 12-13 months
were allocated into four groups according to their live weight. First group (T1)
fed conventional diet (barley grains + straw). The second group (T2) fed
conventional diet plus FB during pre and post mating. The third group (T3) fed
conventional diet plus FB during pre and mating. The fourth group (T4) fed
conventional diet plus FB during post mating. The results of this experiment
showed that using FB as supplementary feed

     This study was performed to evaluate the reliability and efficacy of intra-peritoneal performances of chitosan powder in preventing abdominal adhesions following laparotomy. Twenty clinically healthy rabbits of both sexes, weighing 1.5-2 kg were allocated randomly into 2 equal groups; control group (G1) and treated group (G2). After surgical preparation the animals had undergone to laparotomy which was performed to create a sero-muscular incision of 4cm length in the stomach, in G1 the incision was closed by suturing stomach wound and abdominal wall, While (G2) animals were subjected to same operation but after stomach incision suturing, 1gr. of chitosan powder was sprinkled on stomach incision and peritoneal cav

This study was conducted at the turkey farm of the college of Agriculrure? Salahaddin University, by using (7) black and (10) red local turkey toms to study the effect of strain and environmental temperature on semen volume, time needed for semen collection, frequency of massage and percetage of successful trail, and to study the relation beteen pairs of characters under study.

Analysis of variance showed that aenadnie had a significant effect (P<0.05) on both percent of successful trails and the time needed for semen collection, and highly significant (P<0.01) on frequency of massage while it was not significant on the volume of semen.

Effect of environmental temperature showed a significant effect (P<0.05) on t

A general survey was implemented on the hydatid cyst disease in Equidae duing the period from 1\11\2001 till 31\10\2002. The results showed that the infection rate was 7.8% by examining 242 animals, 156 males and 86 females. The rate of hydatid cysts infection reached 8.3% in males and6.97%in females. The livers were the most infected organ by parasitic rate of 68.42% ,in livers and lungs together was 26.31% while in lung was 5.26%.
A198 hydatid cysts were isolate from donkeys livers with rate of 59.59%, from livers and lungs with rate of 38.33% while the isolation rate from lung was 1.5% .
The fertility rate of hydatid cysts in livers reached 50% , most of them were in the examined infected organs reached 11.86% . Fertile hydatid

The effect of oral dosing of bacterial suspension of two types of lactic acid bacteria belonging to the genus lactobacilli that locally isolate on some biochemical and physiological criteria of female rats blood were studied. Three isolates of L. bulgarious and three isolates of L. delbeakli were obtained from the laboratories at the college of educationBreeding/university of Tikrit. Bacterial suspension given as a single oral dose of 2 ml(13 x 108 cell \ ml) for seven day. The results showed no significant changes P≥0.05 in at the blood physiological variables, especially hemoglobin (Hb) , packed cell volume (PCV) ,and total number of white blood cells (WBCs) , while there were significant reduction in the blood biochemical variables,

The aim of this study is to detected the morphology of the alimentary canal in two
freshwater fish species, Gattan Barbus xanthopterus and Grass carp Ctenopharyngodo idella
which belonged to cyprinidae.. Increasing in mouth width with body length. Generally
pharyngeal teeth arranged according to the following formulas. Gattan : 4-3-2 and 2-3-4
Grass carp: 2-5 and 4-2. Variations in the shape, size of pharyngeal teeth were noticed. They
appear short and wide compact in gattan, but hard and serrated, comb like in grass carp.
Different intestinal length were seen indicating differ in feeding natures.

This study designed to know the immuno suppressor effect of aflatoxins
and the efficacy of levamisole to reduce these effects in the titer of antibodies
and protection against challenge for Newcastle disease vaccine in chickens.
This trail include three groups, first group fed on ration free from
aflatoxins contamination, Second group fed on ration contaminated with
aflatoxins, while the third group fed on the same ration of second group and
given levamisole via drinking water with the dose of 10mg/kg of body weight.
All groups vaccinated twice against Newcastle disease at 10 and 20 days
of age. The immunity evaluated by ELISA test at 6, 19, 31 days of age and
challenged at 32 days old.
The results indicate

Recent reports shown that the supplementation of the broiler ration with a
probiotic leads to an ideal microbial balance in the intestinal microflora of their
gastrointestinal tract. Such balance, however, would reflect on their health and
performance. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect of two
probiotic products, Biomin and Iraqi probiotic, on the broiler performance
characteristics. A total of 500 Lohman broiler chicks, one day old, were
randomly distributed into five dietary groups as follow:
T1: chicks fed on diet with half dose of Biomin (1.5 Kg/ Ton diet).
T2: chicks fed on diet with full dose of Biomin. (3 Kg/ Ton diet)
T3: chicks fed on diet with half dose of Iraqi probiotic. (2.5 Kg/

This study was conducted to investigate the Influence of feeding different types feed blocks as supplementary feed on the reproductive performance of Awassi ewes grazing cereal stubble. These types were feed blocks enriched with cottonseed meal (CSM) or Brewers’ grain (BG) as sources undegradable protein (UDP). Ninety-six Awassi ewes (mean live weight 42.2 Kg), aged 3-4 years were allocated into three groups according to ewes live weight and body condition score.
Group (C): Control (No Supplement) stubble grazing only.
Group (FBC): FB enriched with CSM supplement plus stubble grazing.
Group (FBB): FB enriched with BG supplement plus stubble grazing.
All ewes were run as one flock during cereal stubble grazing. The feed bloc

Thirty-three fecal samples from cats were examined for the presence of Toxoplasma oocysts,

The present study was done in different period to study the pathological effects of different doses of Cobalt – 60 radiation which represent an example of gamma rays in white rats by study the pathological & cytogentic changes. Two groups of rats exposure ,first : C0 50 second C- 150 gray for (0,30,45,90)days and the 3rd group control .The results show significant increased P<0.01 in micronuclei with high dose (C-150). Chromosomal aberration and SCE showed significant P<0.01 increased mostly in C-150 at (45 7 90)days of exposure with frequency of breaks ,dicentric , acentric and ring shape with significant reduction in mitotic index (MI)and replicative (RI) index. Pathological changes revealed that increased and enlargement w

Little information is available on the pathophysiological changes caused by Fasciola gigantica. The present study aimed at the ellucidation of these changes in Awasi lambs infected with various doses (100, 300 and 600) of metacercariae.

The radio-isotop (Fe5%) was used to reveal the ferrokinetic pathway in the blood stream of sheep as a result of infection.

All lambs exposed to 100 metacercariae showed the chronic phase of the disease. Of the group exposed to 300 metacercariae, two lambs suffered the subacute phase and the remaining three had the chronic phase. Out of the five lambs given 600 metacercariae, four showed acute syndrom, while the fifth showed the subacute phase of the disease.

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The study  aimed to show the effect of experimental infection with E.coli O157:H7 on some liver and kidney function in adult rabbits. Twenty five domestic rabbits (males and females), aged 6-8 weeks and weighing 1500-2000g, had a negative fecal bacteriological culture of E.coli O157:H7 were used. The rabbits were randomly divided into two groups: infected group (15 rabbits), each animal was drenched  orally with 1ml of Phosphate buffer saline containing (2×109CFU) of E.coli O157:H7, while the control group (10 rabbits) were drenched orally (1ml) of Phosphate buffer saline, the clinical signs were daily observed for 30 days, recording of body weight and blood samples were collected at (0, 3, 15 and 30

The relationship between the clinical singes and some of the hematological and biochemical values in 126 cases of local breed and Shammi breed goats (from both sexes) diagnosed as cases of malnutrition from 230 goats examined .The clinical examination include (beside the general inspection and case history) body temperature, respiratory and pulse rates, mucus membranes skin and coat. Examination of the blood samples included RBCs count, Hb concentration, PCV % and values of cupper, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium. The results showed that the mean body temperature of these goats was lower than in normal goats, while the respiratory and pulse rates were higher .Examination of blood revealed decrease in the means of RBCs counts ,Hb con

     The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of frequent kidding on the reproductive and productive traits in Shami (Damascus) goats. The study was carried out in a commercial private farm at Qushtapa district in Erbil, Iraq. Sixty seven Shami goats were involved during the period from July/2013 to May /2016 for the three kidding seasons. The overall means of daily test milk production and seasonal milk production were 1.955 kg and 176.70, respectively. Frequent kidding significantly (P<0.05) affected daily test milk production and seasonal milk production. Total kids born in three kid crops system in two years (accelerating kidding) were 150 compared with75 kids in two kid crop (naturally annual

In the treatment of COVID-19, the antiviral medication Favipiravir has proven to be quite successful. Its metabolism is mediated by the enzymes aldehyde oxidase (AO) and xanthine oxidase (XO). This research investigated the potential drug-drug interaction between
favipiravir and amlodipine in hypertensive rabbits. Twenty local adult male rabbits (aged between 10 and 12 months and weighing between 2 and 2.5 kg) were induced with hypertension by 20 mg/kg BW of desoxycorticosterone acetate subcutaneously for three
weeks and then divided randomly into two groups of ten. The first group received a single oral dose of 40 mg/kg BW of favipiravir, while the second group received 5 mg/kg of amlodipine orally for 14 consecutive days to

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of dietary aspirin on performance, health
status of broilers reared in high density (15 birds / m 0) . Ninety chicks 7 days old were distributed into
two treatments , chicks in T1 fed a diet without aspirin (control) , chicks in T2 fed a diet supplemented
with 0.2 % aspirin . Each treatment was subdivided into three replicates and each replicate reared in 1
X 1 m pen. Live body weight, weight gain , feed consumption , feed conversion ratio and mortality due
to ascites biweekly were recorded , also activity of some blood enzymes included GOT , GPT and ALP
at 7 weeks of age . The data obtained revealed the following :
Adding 0.2 % of aspirin in diet (T2) enhanced