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Clinical and Laboratory Diagnosis of Some Blood Parasites in Dairy Cows in Qena Governorate

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Veterinary Diseases (Fish diseases, Poultry diseases, Infectious disea…imal diseases, Internal medicine, Laboratory and clinical diagnosis).

Abstract

Bovine theileriosis, babesiosis and anaplasmosis are tick-borne hemoparasitic diseases and they are responsible for huge economic losses in livestock sector in Egypt. Currently, a total number of 110 dairy cows from different regions of Qena governorate, Egypt, were clinically and laboratory investigated for diagnosis of theileriosis, babesiosis and anaplasmosis using Giemsa stained blood film and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay during the period from January 2019 to December 2019. On the basis of the obtained results, the overall prevalence of babesiosis, theileriosis and anaplasmosis among the screened cattle was 9.09%, 21.81%, and 25.45 respectively. Furthermore, mixed infections were seen in nineteen cases (17.27%) on the basis of blood film examination. PCR assay results revealed that, the infection rate with theileriosis, babesiosis and anaplasmosis was 5.45%, 7.27% and 16.36%, respectively. While, 7 cows were found to harbor a mixed infection. Additionally, hemato-biochemical alternations in theileriosis, babesiosis and anaplasmosis infected cows were also detected in this study. It could be concluded that PCR assay was the most sensitive test in the detection of the infection in all cases of the disease (acute, chronic and carriers) as once animals infected, they become carriers with low parasitemia after recovery and this low parasitemia cannot be detected by traditional examination of Giemsa stained thin blood smears.

DOI

10.21608/svu.2022.90304.1140

Keywords

Theileriosis, Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, PCR, hemato-biochemical

Authors

First Name

Arwa

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Sameh

Affiliation

Animal Health Research institute, Qena, Egypt

Email

arwasameh888@yahoo.com

City

Qena

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First Name

Adel

Last Name

elasyed ahmed

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Division of clinical laboratory diagnosis, Animal Medicine Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Email

adel.mohamed@vet.svu.edu.eg

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First Name

Abu El-Magd

Last Name

M. Mohamed

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Animal Health Research institute, Dokki, Egypt

Email

abuelmagdmahmoud49@gmail.com

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First Name

Alsagher

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

O. A.

Affiliation

Department of Animal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Email

alsagher.ali@vet.svu.edu.eg

City

Qena

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Volume

5

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

29813

Issue Date

2022-03-01

Receive Date

2021-08-11

Publish Date

2022-03-01

Page Start

68

Page End

82

Print ISSN

2535-1826

Online ISSN

2535-1877

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7

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Research article

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712

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Publication Title

SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences

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https://svu.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023