background: ovine babesiosis is the most important haemoparasitic tick-borne disease of small ruminants in iran caused by babesia ovis, b. motasi, and b. crassa . the aim of this study was to characterize the species of ovine babesia species isolated from different geographical region of iran. methods: one hundred fifty four blood samples collected from animals, which demonstrated the pale muco...

Equine piroplasmosis is a tropical parasitic disease caused by several intraerythrocytic members of the genera Babesia and Theileria. These pathogens are transmitted multiple tick species considered as important exotic microorganisms in countries. causes significant economic losses due to abortions, decreased activity even death equines, making surveillance these infectious essential. In northe...

altogether, 132 rodents of 4 species of meriones persicus , cricetulus migratorius, mus muscri~ius and allactaga dater were collected with live traps from different parts of meshkin - shahr district from summer 1373 to autumn 1374. the purpose of this survey was to identify the parasitic fauna of rodents. before dissection, the mammals were measured for biometric purposes. babesia microti , see...

Bovine babesiosis is a tick-transmitted disease caused by different species of Babesia. The white yak is a unique yak breed that lives only in Tianzhu in the Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province, in northwestern China. Previous research using the ELISA method has confirmed that the white yak could become infected with B. bigemina. The objective of this study was the molecular detection and...

To develop an ELISA technique for the detection of antibodies against Babesia ovis, the infectederythrocytes were lysed and the supernatant soluble antigen, after sonication and ultracentrifugation of thelysate was used as antigen. Optimal dilution of the antigen was determined by checkerboard titrations, usingpositive and negative control sera. A correlation of 85% was observed between the res...

BACKGROUND Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease (LD), and Babesia, Bartonella, and Ehrlichia species (spp.) are recognized tick-borne pathogens in humans worldwide. Using serology and molecular testing, the incidence of these pathogens was investigated in symptomatic patients from Australia. METHODS Sera were analyzed by an immunofluorescent antibody assay (IFA) followed ...

Rangelia vitalii is a protozoon described from dogs in the south and southeast regions of Brazil. It is phylogenetically related to Babesia spp. that infects dogs, but data on this enigmatic parasite is still limited. The aim of this work was to detect piroplasm species in dogs in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by 18S rRNA gene-based PCR assay, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RF...

In this preliminary study, a novel DNA microarray system was tested for the diagnosis of bovine piroplasmosis and anaplasmosis in comparison with microscopy and PCR assay results. In the Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, 164 cattle were investigated for the presence of piroplasms and Anaplasma species. All investigated cattle were clinically examined. Blood samples were screened for the presence of ...