| bovine tuberculosis in burdur, southern turkey: epidemiological, pathological and economic study. | burdur is the most important dairy cattle breeding and milk production area of turkey, and burdur slaughterhouse is one of the biggest slaughterhouses in the southern part of the country. no scientific information is available on the prevalence of tuberculosis (tb) in cattle in burdur. a survey was therefore undertaken to determine the prevalence of disseminated tb infection in cattle in this district. | 2005 | 16466064 |
| increased water hardness and magnesium levels may increase occurrence of urolithiasis in cows from the burdur region (turkey). | objectives of the study were to measure water hardness in burdur, and to establish its possible association with urolithiasis in cattle. water samples were obtained from different stables (n = 15). water hardness and the concentrations of potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, zinc, manganese and copper ions were calculated from these water samples. total hardness of the samples (mean 285 ppm) exceeded the standards and the water was characterized by high content of magnesium ions. kidneys ... | 2007 | 17237984 |
| prevalence and economic importance of cystic echinococcosis in slaughtered ruminants in burdur, turkey. | this study was conducted between april 2000 and march 2001, in 12-month period. during the study, local slaughterhouses were visited periodically for 1 year to examine the internal organs (livers, lungs, spleens and hearts) for the presence of cysts and total 1355 cattle, 218 sheep and 104 goats were examined for the cystic echinococcosis (ce). it was found that 13.5% of cattle, 26.6% of sheep and 22.1% of goats were infected with this disease. while cysts in cattle (p < 0.001) and goats (p > 0. ... | 2003 | 12864901 |
| occurrence of mycotoxins in feed samples in burdur province, turkey. | the aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of total aflatoxin (af), ochratoxin a, t-2 toxin, deoxynivalenol (don), zearalenone (zea), and fumonisin (fb) in dairy cattle, beef cattle, and lamb-calf feeds. a total of 180 dairy cattle, beef cattle, and lamb-calf feeds (60 samples each) were randomly collected from farms, feed mills, and villages in burdur province, between september 2006 and august 2007. all samples were analyzed by the competitive enzyme linked immuno sorbent assay (elisa ... | 2013 | 23054279 |