Bovine babesiosis is a tick-borne disease caused by intra-erythrocytic apicomplexan protozoan (Piroplasmida: Babesiidae) that affect animals' health and their productivity. As little is known about the current situation on babesiosis in cattle in Romania, this study aimed to investigate the...
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Pavel, A. I.; Ioniță, M.; Mitrea, I. L.
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Asociaţia Generală a Medicilor Veterinari din România, Bucharest, Romania
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Revista Româna de Medicina Veterinara, 2020, 30, 2, pp 33-38
Bovine piroplasmosis is a tick-borne disease caused by apicomplexan hemoparasites of the genera Theileria and Babesia. This study was carried out to assess the presence and frequency of piroplasm parasites in apparently healthy cattle in Kyrgyzstan. A total of 454 blood samples were collected from...
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Aktaș, M.; Kİsadere, I.; Özübek, S.; Cİhan, H.; Salİkov, R.; Cİrak, V. Y.
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Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
Citation
Parasitology Research, 2019, 118, 8, pp 2431-2435
The apicomplexan parasite Theileria orientalis is a tick-borne intracellular protozoan parasite that is widely distributed throughout China. It causes bovine theileriosis in infected cattle, which results in huge economic losses to the cattle industry. In this study, the infection status of T....
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Wang JinMing; Yang JiFei; Liu JunLong; Wang XiaoXing; Xu JianLin; Liu AiHong; Li YouQuan; Liu ZhiJie; Ren QiaoYun; Luo JianXun; Guan GuiQuan; Yin Hong
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Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
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Parasitology Research, 2018, 117, 12, pp 3689-3694
Bovine babesiosis is the most important protozoan disease transmitted by ticks. In Plasmodium falciparum, another Apicomplexa protozoan, the interaction of rhoptry neck protein 2 (RON2) with apical membrane antigen-1 (AMA-1) has been described to have a key role in the invasion process. To date,...
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Mosqueda, J.; Hidalgo-Ruiz, M.; Calvo-Olvera, D. A.; Hernandez-Silva, D. J.; Ueti, M. W.; Mercado-Uriostegui, M. A.; Rodriguez, A.; Ramos-Aragon, J. A.; Hernandez-Ortiz, R.; Kawazu, S.; Igarashi, I.
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Parasitology, 2019, 146, 13, pp 1646-1654
The global impact of bovine babesiosis caused by the tick-borne apicomplexan parasites Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina and Babesia divergens is vastly underappreciated. These parasites invade and multiply asexually in bovine red blood cells (RBCs), undergo sexual reproduction in their tick vectors...
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Suarez, C. E.; Alzan, H. F.; Silva, M. G.; Vignesh Rathinasamy; Poole, W. A.; Cooke, B. M.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
International Journal for Parasitology, 2019, 49, 2, pp 183-197
Tick-borne pathogens (TBP) are responsible for significant economic losses to cattle production, globally. This is particularly true in countries like India where TBP constrain rearing of high yielding Bos taurus, as they show susceptibility to acute tick borne disease (TBD), most notably tropical...
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Kolte, S. W.; Larcombe, S. D.; Jadhao, S. G.; Magar, S. P.; Ganesh Warthi; Kurkure, N. V.; Glass, E. J.; Shiels, B. R.
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Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
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PLoS ONE, 2017, 12, 3, pp e0174595
Babesiosis is a potentially fatal tick-borne zoonotic disease caused by a species complex of blood parasites that can infect a variety of vertebrates, particularly dogs, cattle, and humans. In the United States, human babesiosis is caused by two distinct parasites, Babesia microti and Babesia...
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Swei, A.; O'Connor, K. E.; Couper, L. I.; Thekkiniath, J.; Conrad, P. A.; Padgett, K. A.; Burns, J.; Yoshimizu, M. H.; Gonzales, B.; Munk, B.; Shirkey, N.; Konde, L.; Mamoun, C. B.; Lane, R. S.; Kjemtrup, A.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
International Journal for Parasitology, 2019, 49, 2, pp 95-103
Babesia bovis, a tick-borne apicomplexan parasite responsible for bovine babesiosis has a complex life cycle including sexual development in its Rhipicephalus microplus vector. Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in sexual development is essential for developing future-generation...
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Alzan, H. F.; Cooke, B. M.; Suarez, C. E.
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Elsevier GmbH, München, Germany
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Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2019, 10, 3, pp 722-728
The aim of the study was to determine the species spectrum of ixodid ticks that infest horses and donkeys in South Africa and to identify those species that act as vectors of disease to domestic livestock. Ticks were collected opportunistically from 391 horses countrywide by their owners or grooms, ...
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Horak, I. G.; Heyne, H.; Halajian, A.; Booysen, S.; Smit, W. J.
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AOSIS OpenJournals, Tygervalley, South Africa
Citation
Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2017, 84, 1, pp a1302
Background: Bovine babesiosis is caused by apicomplexan pathogens of the genus Babesia such as B. bigemina and B. bovis. These tick-borne pathogens have a complex life-cycle involving asexual multiplication in vertebrate hosts and sexual reproduction in invertebrate vectors. In the tick midgut,...
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Bohaliga, G. A. R.; Johnson, W. C.; Taus, N. S.; Hussein, H. E.; Bastos, R. G.; Suarez, C. E.; O'Connor, R.; Ueti, M. W.
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BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
Parasites and Vectors, 2018, 11, 480, pp (24 August 2018)