Mehmet Yaman

• Mustafa Kemal University

Deformed wing virus (DWV), which is an important honey bee virus transmitted by Varroa destructor (V. destructor) , causes colony losses in honey bee colonies. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and genetic diversity of DWV in honey bees in Türkiye and to determine the role of V. destructor in the transmission of the genetic variants of...

Peritoneal tetrathyridiosis is a rare parasitic disease that occurs accidentally in various operations or necropsies due to its usually asymptomatic course in cats and dogs. However, tetrathyridium can cause chronic peritonitis with ascites and even fatal consequences in cats and dogs, sometimes. In this study, the prevalence of tetrathyridiosis ca...

A colt brought to the Department of Surgery of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, with open wounds on various parts of the body was examined. Three fly larvae were found in the open wound between the semitendinosus and semimembranosus muscles of the left hind leg and 9 fly larvae were found in the open wound on the uppe...

This case report was prepared to provide information about Menacanthus pallidulus (Neumann, 1912), which was detected for the first time on a domestic chicken in Hatay province of Türkiye. Louse specimens collected from a chicken by a student were brought to Hatay Mustafa Kemal University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Parasitology,...

Ectoparasite infestations affect poultry directly and indirectly in many ways. Among these, lice are highly adaptable, but they are an important problem for both commercial and small-scale poultry breeders because they infest frequently and cause economic losses. Lice are permanent, obligate ectoparasites that spend all their development stages on...

Sacbrood virus (SBV), infecting both larva and adult honeybees, is one of the most common honeybee viruses encountered worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and genetic diversity of SBV in honeybees, and to determine the role of Varroa destructor (V. destructor) in the transmission of this virus. Adult honeybee samples were coll...

Wild animals play an important role as amplifiers and/or reservoir hosts in the ecology of many ticks and tick-borne pathogens affecting livestock and humans. In this study, which was carried out in the Hatay province, the southernmost region of Anatolia, a total of 362 (210♀, 146 ♂, 6N) tick specimens were collected from 18 wild animals from 7 spe...

On examination of a colt brought to the Department of Surgery clinic of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, with open wounds on various parts of the body, 3 fly larvae were found in the open wound between the semitendinosus and semimembranosus muscles of the left hind leg and 9 fly larvae were found in the open wound on...

Hemosporidian parasites that cause infections in poultry and death in susceptible animals show a global distribution. Infected wild birds play an important role in this distribution due to seasonal migration among different regions. Hatay, where migratory birds enter Turkey, is an active region regarding vectors, disease agents and hosts. This stud...

The parasites of the genus Euclinostomum sp. are digenic trematodes, subclass Digenea, family Clinostomidae Lühe, 1901 and they have a heteroxene life cycle. Adults of these trematodes, common in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, are found in the mouth, pharynx, larynx, trachea and oesophagus of fish-feeding bird species. In contrast, their metacer...

Cestodes in the genus Mesocestoides Vaillant, 1863 (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea: Mesocestoididae) have zoonotic potential. Their final hosts are carnivorous mammals, sometimes raptors and humans, and they parasitize in the small intestine. It has two intermediate hosts and two larval forms. The first larval form, cysticercoids, develops in coprophage i...

The current study aimed to detect parasites in Hatay Mountain Gazelles (Gazella gazella), which are categorized as endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The present study was conducted in Hatay Mountain Gazelle Wildlife Development Area, where 40 gazelles inhabited (30 ♀, 10 ♂), 15 of which were over three year...

This case report was prepared to provide information about cystic echinococcosis detected in a twelve years old domestic cat during experimental laparotomy. In the anamnesis, there was a complaint of progressive abdominal swelling. As a result of clinical and radiological examinations, unknown intraabdominal formations were detected. At laparotomy,...

The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of nosemosis by using microscopic and molecular (Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)) methods in honey bees of Hatay province, and to investigate the effects of beekeepers' attitudes and behaviors and apiary conditions on the spread of disease through a survey study. In the study, adult bee samples w...

Cystic echinococcosis is an important parasitic disease caused by the dog tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. This parasite is widespread in worldwide. The life cycle of E. granulosus occurs between two mammalian hosts. Definive hosts of its are mainly dogs and the other canids. Intermediate hosts are sheep, goats, pigs, horses, cattle etc. Sometimes...

Nosemosis affects the digestive system of adult honey bees and causes bee losses. It is a dangerous and contagious disease that is common in the world and in Turkey. Amoebiasis caused by Malpighamoeba mellificae does not lead to serious problems in strong colonies alone. However, when it progresses with nosemosis, it can cause significant losses by...

Leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease that occurs in humans, dogs, cats and rodents by vector female sand fly (Phlebotomus, Lutzomyia) from the Psychodidae family. There are 3 forms of the disease, including cutaneous leishmaniasis, visceral leishmaniasis and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. Leishmania infantum causes cutaneous leishmaniasis in dogs and...

In the clinical examination of a donkey, which brought to the Ownerless Animal Care and Rehabilitation Center of the Hatay Metropolitan Municipality due to neglecting and senility, local hair losses, ruffling and opacity were observed. A few louse specimens were detected on the hair shafts on the back of the donkey during the macroscopic examinatio...

Maggot therapy is a method based on the use of myiasis fly larvae also called maggot which affinity necrotic tissue in wound treatment. In this study, it was aimed to determine the antibacterial activity some muscid and myiasis flies larvae secretions in vitro. In this study, Lucilia sericata, Chrysomya albiceps, Calliphora vicina and Musca domesti...

We aimed to determine frequency of louse and flea infestations in cats and dogs in various gender and age in this study. A hundred and fifty dogs and 50 cats were evaluated according to flea and louse infestation in Hatay Metropolitan Municipality Unattended Animals Care and Rehabilitation Center between 01 June 2017 and 10 July 2017. Louse was det...

Objectives: Besides the yield loss of the pigeons those are infested with ectoparasites they are also susceptible against the other infections because of weakened immunity. Thus it has been evaluated the situation of ectoparasites of domestic pigeons and determined the prevalance in Antakya region. Materials and Methods: Totally 100 domestic pigeon...

A stork was brought to the Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Veterinary Clinics with the complaint of injury. On the examination, larvae were observed open humerus fracture on the left wing. Larvae were identified depending on the morphological characters of the anterior spiracles, posterior spiracles and cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton. The results...

The survey aims to determine the presence of mange mites in stray dogs from Hatay province, as they are a cause of public health problem. In the present study, mange mites were investigated in 100 dogs that were brought to Hatay Metropolitan Municipality Unattended Animals Care and Rehabilitation Center between 15 September-15 November 2016, by obt...

Investigation of the effects of antibacterial compounds have become more important with the increasing of antibacterial-resistant strains of bacteria. Maggot therapy is a method based on the use of myiasis fly larvae also called maggot which affinity necrotic tissue in wound treatment. The use and popularity of maggot therapy is increasing rapidly...

Two female ticks were determined in a Mediterranean chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) which was brought to parasitology laboratory for examination. The ticks collected by forceps from neck and leg regions were identified under the stereo microscope as Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) kohlsi (Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1960) which is one of the single host tick...

Objective: This study was conducted to identify the seroprevalance of diseases which are zoonotic and responsible from abortion such as toxoplasmosis, listeriosis and brucellosis in Holstein crossbred cattle of different age and sex in Adana province, between 2008 April-September. Methods: For this purpose, blood serum samples were collected fro...

The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of canine dirofilariosis in Hatay province, south of Turkey. A total of 269 blood samples were collected from owned dogs in this multi-centre survey between March and July 2006. Blood samples were examined by modified Knott and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) techniques to detect...

This study was carried out to determine of Culicoides species in Hatay province (Antakya, Reyhanli{dotless}, Hassa, Samandaǧ and Ki{dotless}ri{dotless}khan districts) between April 2005 and October 2006. The light traps were used for the collection of Culicoides samples. They were placed in or nearby sheep or cattle pens at the sunset and was kept...

Seventy-nine owned dogs (47 males and 32 females) from Antakya province were examined for E. granulosus by coproantigen ELISA (CHEKIT®-ECHINOTEST) between April to July in 2006. The estimated prevalence of E. granulosus infection was 8.86 % (7/79). Mean age of the dogs with E. granulosus was 2.3 years ranging from one to five years. There was no st...

Phlebotomine sandflies make people uncomfortable because of biting and because they transmit various diseases. Especially, leishmaniasis is a serious public health problem in a number of countries, and requires control management. No effective control methods have been found for immature sandflies. On the contrary, the studies on destruction and mo...

The two Old World genera, Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia, were both recorded in southern Anatolia in Turkey. Phlebotomus species predominated and comprised about 93% of the entire collection (3,172 specimens). Out of the sixteen species identified, two belonged to the genus Sergentomyia: S. dentata and S. theodori. The remaining fourteen species in t...

In Shami (Damuscus) goats in the Hatay province, it was found that using SFDT technique 88.17% of goats was seropositive for T. gondii and 36.55% of the goats were seropositive for B. ovis by the ELISA test.

Four hundred-fifty samples of mouldy Surk, a Turkish traditional skim milk cheese, were collected at retail markets, small dairy plants and houses in Hatay province of Turkey, and were examined for the presence of storage mites. Only one species of storage mite, Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) was found in 38 of 450 samples (8.44%). The moisture...

In Hatay, 13 nematodes (8 [female symbol] and 5 [male symbol]) were observed in the thoracic cavity of a white-spectacled bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos). The parasites were cleared with lactophenol and then investigated under the light microscopy and important morphological parts of parasites were measured. The parasites were identified as Diplotr...

Between the April and October of 1997, the sandflies in six areas (Centrum, Altinekin, Kadinhani, Cumra, Beysehir and Bozkir) of the Turkish province of Konya, in Central Anatolia, were surveyed. All the sandflies were caught close to houses, on sticky-paper traps placed in barns used by livestock. All 127 specimens of Sergentomyia collected were e...

This study was carried out in order to determine the prevalence of helminth species and their relation to the respiratory syndrome in Damascus goats bred in Hatay, Turkey. Fecal samples obtained from 130 Shami goats with respiratory signs including coughing, growling respiration and mucopurulent discharge were examined using the Fulleborne's salt s...

In this study autopsies and fecal examinations of 8 cats and 6 dogs were performed. The helminth infection rate was founded to be 50.0% in cats and dogs after the fecal examinations. Trichuris sp. eggs were found in feces of one dog, and Ancylostoma sp. eggs in feces of one cat and one dog. Seven (87.5%) cats and 2 (33.4%) dogs were found to be inf...

Ostriches have few endo and ectoparasite agents. These include Houttuynia struthionis, Libyostrongylus douglassii, Chandrella quiscali, Cryptosporidium spp, Isospora struthionis, Struthiolipeurus struthionis, S. nandu, Pterolichus bicaudatus, Gabucinia sculpturata, Dermoglyphus pachycnemi and Hypoboscis struthionis. Furthermore, ostriches can also...

The province of Hatay, which lies on the Mediterranean coast in south-eastern Turkey, forms an important endemic area for human cutaneous leishmaniasis (HCL). Between the June and November of 2001, the sandflies in eight areas of the province, Erzin, Dortyol, Iskenderun, Kirikhan, Antakya, Samandag, Altinozu and Yayladagi, were surveyed, using stic...

This study was performed for determining sand fly species in Afyon province between May and October 2002. Sand fly samples were collected with light traps from cow stable in three location (Çakir village, Küçük Çobanlar village, Sülün village) in the centre of Afyon. During this study, a total of 113 sandflies (69 males and 44 females) were collect...