Information on the occurrence, diversity and economic losses due to Eimeria infection on cattle farms is lacking in Western Iran. The principal aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and diversity of Eimeria species in cattle in Hamedan province, Western Iran. In a cross-sectional study performed from June 2010 to April 2013, 400 faecal samples were collected randomly from animals wi...

During the summers of 2000, 2001, and 2002, 1,950 fecal samples from 4 families, 10 genera, and 16 species of rodents in Alaska, U.S.A. (N1⁄41,711), and Siberia, Russia (N1⁄4239) were examined for coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae). The 4 families sampled were Dipodidae (jumping mice), Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), Muridae (mice, rats), and Cricetidae (voles, lemmings). Nineteen oocyst...

Unlike with Eimeria species infecting chickens, specific identification and nomenclature of Eimeria species infecting turkeys is complicated, and in the absence of molecular data, imprecise. In an attempt to reconcile contradictory data reported on oocyst morphometrics and biological descriptions of various Eimeria species infecting turkey, we established single oocyst derived lines of 5 import...

AIM The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal (GI) parasitic infections in goats of hilly region of Meghalaya. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 834 fecal samples of goats were screened for 1 year (2014-2015) using flotation techniques. RESULTS The overall prevalence of GI parasitic infections in goats was 28.65%. Season-wise highest infections were recorded d...

Clinical chicken coccidiosis is mostly caused by simultaneous infection of several Eimeria species, and host immunity against Eimeria is species-specific. It is urgent to identify common immunodominant antigen of Eimeria for developing multivalent anticoccidial vaccines. In this study, sporozoite proteins of Eimeria tenella, Eimeria acervulina and Eimeria maxima were analyzed by two-dimensional...

this investigation was carried out to determine the prevalence of eimeria infections and the diversity of eimeria species in camels of tabriz region. the prevalence of eimeria spp. infection and the intensity of faecal oocysts were determined in 164 camels using floatation and sporulation techniques. faeces of 34 camels (20.73%) were infected with four eimeria species including e. bactriani (52...

With the Eimeria spp. populations that infect chickens used as a model for coccidian biology, we aimed to survey the transcriptome of Eimeria maxima and contrast it to the 2 other Eimeria spp. for which transcriptome data are available, i.e., Eimeria tenella and Eimeria acervulina . The asexual intracellular development stage, the merozoite, was specifically examined, and we used expressed sequ...

An improved polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method for determining the species composition of Eimeria in poultry litter was developed by incorporating species-specific internal standards in the assay. Internal standard molecules were prepared by fusing seven different Eimeria species-specific intervening transcribed sequence 1 (ITS1) rDNA primer pairs to a non-Eimeria DNA molecule and by ...

An intestinal Eimeria was previously reported as a significant pathogen of Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) in nurseries in Vietnam. In the present study, both Eimeria and Cryptosporidium were detected by sequence analyses of fragments of the 18S rRNA gene amplified from these Vietnamese L. calcarifer tissues. Based on these analyses, the Eimeria from the Vietnamese L. calcarifer formed clades ...