Introduction to Liver Disease The liver is responsible for a variety of functions, including lipid, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism; vitamin storage, metabolism, and activation; mineral, glycogen, and triglyceride storage; extramedullary hematopoiesis; and coagulant, anticoagulant, and several acute phase proteins synthesis. Through the production and enterohepatic circulation of bile acids, as well as the detoxification of […]
Introduction Unlike coccidiosis which is a disease caused by parasites (Apicomplexa phylum and the Eimeriidae family), infectious bursal disease (IBD) is a viral infection that affects young domestic chickens all over the world. Depression, watery diarrhea, ruffled feathers, and dehydration are all symptoms of the clinical condition. In young chicks, the disease can manifest as […]
Introduction Coccidiosis is caused by protozoa belonging to the Apicomplexa phylum and the Eimeriidae family. The majority of Eimeria species infect different parts of the gut in chickens. The infectious phase is quick (4–7 days) and is marked by parasite proliferation in host cells as well as significant intestinal mucosa destruction. Coccidia in poultry are […]
The Study on Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Helminths in Chickens, Bale Zone, Dalomana District, Southeast Ethiopia Sufian Abdo Jilo1*, Sadik Zakir Abadura1, and Sureshkumar P. Nair2 School of Veterinary Medicine, Jimma University College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Ethiopia Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Ethiopia * Corresponding author: Sufian Abdo Jilo, […]
Nutritional problems in dogs and cats are uncommon in industrialized countries, especially when they are fed high-quality, commercial, comprehensive, and balanced diets. When dogs and cats are fed imbalanced homemade diets, cats are fed diets formulated for dogs, or dogs and cats are fed particular human foods, nutritional problems are most common. Dog or cat […]
Canine parvovirus (CPV): Clinical Signs, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis, Prevention and Control Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a highly contagious and the common cause of acute, infectious gastrointestinal sickness in puppies and/or dogs that have not been immunized. Its exact origin is uncertain; however, it is thought to have originated from the feline panleukopenia virus. It’s […]
Ali Z. Qandoos1, Hanan A. Ahmed2, and Wafaa A. Abd El-Ghany1* 1 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt 2 Central Laboratory for Evaluation of Veterinary Biologics, Cairo, Egypt * Corresponding author: Wafaa A. Abd El-Ghany, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. Email: wafaa.ghany@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The current study aimed to characterize Pasteurella […]
On poultry farms, biosecurity practices and farm hygiene are used to reduce the risk of disease agents spreading from outside sources (such as wild bird populations or other farms), disease agent movement between sheds on the same farm, disease agent carryover from one batch to the next in the shed environment, and disease agent transmission […]
