The first category includes endemic African diseases which have evolved with and cycle in the various indigenous wildlife populations which, in turn, act as sylvatic reservoirs of the infectious agents. These diseases usually cause only minimal debility or mortality in indigenous wildlife and the infections are often subclinical. In contrast, infection of domestic livestock with these agents us...

background: babesia ovis and theileria ovis are among the important and main etiological agents causing ovine babesiosis and ovine theileriosis, causing severe economic losses among sheep and goats. the aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and molecular diagnosis of b. ovis and t. ovis in lohi sheep at livestock experiment station bahadurnagar, okara, pakistan. methods: the ...

The Theileria genus includes a large number of species of tick-borne parasites that infect domestic animals and wildlife species, predominantly ruminants. These range from species, such as T. parva and T. annulata, which cause acute lymphoproliferative diseases in cattle resulting in high levels of mortality, to others that are non-pathogenic. In the last decade, several new pathogenic species ...

BACKGROUND There is continued reliance on conventional veterinary drugs including anthelmintics, to some of which resistance has developed. Loss of indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) from societies affects the opportunities for utilization of ethnopharmacological practices unless properly documented. This study was conducted to identify common traditional practices using medicinal plants agai...

This study was conducted to measure selected haematological parameters in Holstein cattle naturally infected with Theileria annulata. Haematological analysis indicated significant decreases in red blood cell count, haematocrit value, haemoglobin amount, mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, and white blood cell, lymphocyte, neutrophil, monocyte, eosinophil, and basophil counts. On the oth...