Background: Theileria spp. were targeted for detection and differentiation from clinical samples using PCR in the current investigation diagnostic sensitivity of this method was evaluated comparison to microscopic observations. The characteristics bovine tropical theileriosis as markers also analysed based on data. Methods: On basis evaluation inspection blood smears, 200 cattle suspected havin...

background as per the vaccine management policy of the government of india all vaccine vials opened for an immunization session were discarded at the end of that session, irrespective of the type of vaccine or the number of doses remaining in the vial prior to 2013. subsequently, open vial policy (ovp) was introduced in 2013 and should reduce both vaccine wastage as well as governmental healthc...

Piroplasms are tick-transmitted, intracellular, hemoprotozoan parasites that cause anorexia, fever, anemia, and icterus. Theileriosis is caused by Theileria sergenti and causes major economic losses in grazing cattle in Japan and Korea. In May 2003, we examined the antigenic diversity of the major piroplasm surface protein (MPSP) gene in 35 healthy Jeju black cattle that were born and raised at...

Eight cattle immunized with cattle-derived Theileria parva Boleni stabilate together with six susceptible controls were released in Dombawera Game Park on the Highveld of Zimbabwe. This coincided with Rhipicephalus appendiculatus nymphal activity. The cattle grazed together with African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) and were not treated against tick infestation. The nymphal tick infestation was h...

AIM The aim was to determine hemato-biochemical changes and rapid diagnosis of Theileria annulata in naturally infected crossbred cows. MATERIALS AND METHODS Blood samples from lactating crossbred cows (n=40) between 3 and 7 years of age and showing clinical signs of tropical theileriosis were collected, with or without anticoagulant, and analyzed for tropical theileriosis by direct smear, di...

This case report aimed to alert veterinarians of the possibility simultaneous infections with more than one Theileria species in cattle herds Zimbabwe. Cows (N=7) and a postmortem specimen from dairy farm located Chivhu, Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe were presented for clinical examination, respectively. On history taking, herd had decrease milk yield high cow mortalities. The live animal...

An 8-day-old newborn female twin Holstein calves with a history of weakness, anorexia, emaciation and convulsion were presented to Tabriz University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. On admission, the calves were febrile and recumbent. Physical examination revealed many ticks from the external body surface of the animals, right and left prescapular lymphadenopathy, severe opisthotonos, nystagmus, p...