Background Surra is an animal trypanosomosis, caused by infection with Trypanosoma
evansi and leading to severe economic loss due to mortality and morbidity. Compared to …

Tabanids are nuisance pests for people and livestock because of their painful and irritating
bite, persistent biting behavior, and blood ingestion. About 4400 tabanid species have been …

Broadly, species of arthropods infesting livestock are grouped into flies (biting and non-
biting), fleas, lice (biting and sucking), ticks (soft and hard), and mites (burrowing, non …

Specific duplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was employed on 411 (386 cattle and 25
buffaloes) blood samples of dairy animals from 9 districts of Punjab, India, for simultaneous …

Babesiosis is a tick-borne hemoprotozoan disease of domestic and wild animals. The
disease is caused by various species of Babesia and some species of Babesia have also …

Tropical theileriosis, caused by the apicomplexan hemoparasite of the genus Theileria, is a
major constraint to livestock production in various parts of world, including South Asia …

Normalization of gene expression data using appropriate reference genes is critical to
diminish any technical bias in an experiment involving quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) …

Vector-borne diseases represent a major threat to farm animals in tropical and subtropical
countries, including Egypt. Diverse Babesia and Trypanosoma species are known to infect …

Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate the presence of Theileria in blood
samples of crossbred and indigenous adult cows raised under unorganized small scale …

Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TTBDs) are considered major causes of economic loss in the
livestock sector which incur an annual control cost estimated at US $498.7 million in India …