A study was conducted to identify and determine burdens of ticks infesting Borana cattle in the Borana Province of Ethiopia. Rhipicephalus pulchellus, Rhipicephalus pravus, Rhipicephalus muhsamae, Rhipicephalus praetextatus, Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi, Amblyomma gemma, Amblyomma variegatum, Amblyomma cohaerens, Amblyomma lepidum, Hyalomma truncatum, Hyalomma marginatum rufipes and Boophilus ...

1Queen Alia Heart Institute, Paediatric Cardiology Division, Amman, Jordan. 2Department of Paediatrics, King Hussein Medical Centre, Amman, Jordan. Received: 30/06/02; accepted: 17/02/03 ABSTRACT Rheumatic fever remains a significant health problem in Jordan. We retrospectively reviewed medical charts of 28 boys and 22 girls (mean age at presentation 10.5 ± 2.6 years) with confirmed diagnosis b...

background: babesiosis and thosis are parasitic tick-borne diseases that cause a lot of economic loss in livestock industry. objectives: the purpose of the present study was to detect babesia and theileria infection in goats and and vector ticks in goats in mashhad. methods: one hundred blood samples of goats and 246 ticks were collected from some suspected flocks with history of piroplasmosis....