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Clinicopathological investigations on babesiosis among camels (Camels dromedaries) in Aswan Province, Egypt

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Animal ecology

Abstract

Camel is occupied barren and semi- barren areas. It is to be among important species due to employed for multifunction and different purposes. It has the possibility to face unpredictable environmental conditions. However, hemoparasitic diseases are distinctly disturbing camels in the tropical countries lead to economic loss. Babesiosis is hemoprotozoal disease achieved economic importance resulted from high mortality. So that, our study was conducted to demonstrate an extent of babesia species to induce health risks in camel. One hundred (100) camels obtained from Daraw and Aswan slaughter houses belonging to Aswan Province from period October 2019 to September 2020. The survey camels were apparent healthy. Blood samples were withdrawn from jugular veins for parasitological examination, complete blood picture and biochemical assays. Tissues specimens from lymph nodes and liver of the infected camels exposed histological examinations. Based on the results obtained from this survey; the percentage of babesia infection between slaughtered camels was 5 % during this period. Hematologically, babesia induced a significant reduction in some hematological parameters involving Red blood cells (RBCs), hemoglobin (Hb.) concentration and packed cell volume (PCV) when compared with non-infected camels. Biochemically, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and urea levels were significantly increased in the babesia infected camels in comparison with non-infected camels. From the histoppathological point of view, babesia infected camels exhibited lymphoid depletion, edema and necrosis in lymph nodes. The liver showed hepatocellular degeneration and portal cirrhosis. It could be concluded that babesiosis was evidently associated with some clinicopathological manifestations among camel species.

DOI

10.21608/aujes.2022.146533.1079

Keywords

camel, blood parasites, Babesia, Clinicopathological manifestations

Authors

First Name

Ahlam

Last Name

Abouzaid

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Clinical Pathology, Veterinary Medicine, Aswan University

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ahlam_abouzaid@yahoo.com

City

Aswan

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Sary

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Khaleel Abd Elghaffar

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First Name

Mohammed

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Karmi Husseinc

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First Name

Essam

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M. Ibrahim

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Volume

3

Article Issue

3

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37015

Issue Date

2022-10-01

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2022-06-23

Publish Date

2022-10-01

Page Start

284

Page End

292

Print ISSN

2735-4229

Online ISSN

2735-4237

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https://aujes.journals.ekb.eg/article_262832.html

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Original Research

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1,615

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Publication Title

Aswan University Journal of Environmental Studies

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https://aujes.journals.ekb.eg/

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Clinicopathological investigations on babesiosis among camels (Camels dromedaries) in Aswan Province, Egypt

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Created At

23 Jan 2023