Veterinary Research & Teaching Hospital: February 2007

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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Research and Teaching Hospital

The Veterinary Research and Teaching Hospital (VRTH) has been officially opened in 1998. In fact this hospital was previously located in Tehran (named Vasfenard Veterinary Clinic) since the opening of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 1934.

The VRTH is located in 35 km west of Tehran in Mahdasht Road in south of Karaj.

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The VRTH belonges to the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, and includes the following teaching sections for training the undergraduate and postgraduate students:

1- Section of Large Animal Internal Medicine

Faculty members

Here are some cases which have been referred to this section:

Sheep suspected with PPR

A fawn with tympany showing trichobezoars in radidiography

Image of trichobezoar

A cow with trumatic reticolo-pericarditis

Theileriosis in a cow.

Copper deficiency in a lamb.

Coenurosis cyst in the brain of a sheep

2- Section of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Faculty members

3- Section of Large Animal Surgery and Radiology

Faculty members

4- Section of Poultry Diseases

Faculty members

5- Section of Clinical Pathology

This section includes four laboratories:

Faculty members

5A- Virology Laboratory

5B- Hematology Laboratory

5C- Biochemistry Laboratory

5D- Bateriology Laboratory

6- Section of Small Animal Internal Medicine

7- Section of Histo-pathology and post-mortem

There are three Research Laboratories including:

1- Leptospira Research Laboratory

Leptospirosis is an infectious disease caused by pathogenic bacteria called leptospires, that are transmitted directly or indirectly from animals to humans. It is therefore a zoonosis. It's clinical manifestations are so variable that infection can not be detected or proved reliably only on the basis of symptoms. Therefore, diagnosis can only be established by demonstration of the etiological agent or by serological procedures. In Iran, the earliest recognised report of leptospirosis is published by Rafyi and Magami in 1968.

Leptospira research laboratory has been officially opened in 1999, by funding of Tehran University and the help of WHO/FAO Collaborating Center for Reference & Research on Leptospirosis, and Professor W. A. Ellis. Since then many research projects covering different aspects of Leptospirosis have been carried out in this Laboratory.

The main prospect of this laboratory is to investigate the current situation of leptospirosis in Iran and provide materials such as specific culture media, standard antiserum against reference strain of Leptospira, diagnostic kits and technical support for Iranian researchers to pursue their research in this field.
At the present two postgraduates students and two graduate students are conducting their thesis research projects in this Laboratory under supervision of Dr G Abdollahpour.

Current research projects conducted in this Laboratory:

1) Identification of leptospira isolated from animals in Iran using REA technique.
2) Comparison of three techniques to detect leptospira interrogans in urine samples.
3) Sero-epidemiological study of human and bovine leptospirosis in North of Iran.
4) Sero-Bacteriolocal survey of Leptospirosis in infected dairy herd in Tehran suburbs
5) Characterization of leptospires cause acute human leptospirosis isolated from patient referred to hospitals of Gilan Medical Science University by PCR
6) Study of leptospirosis in shepherd dogs in Tehran Province of Iran. (DVM Thesis)
7) Sero-epidemiological study of leptospirosis in camel in Qum Province of Iran. (DVM Thesis)
8) Study of leptospirosis in slaughterhouse's employees in Kurdistan Province of Iran
9) Study of leptospirosis in suspected cases in Mazandaran Province of Iran (Research project).