Detection of babesiosis and identification of associated ticks in cattle

Abstract

Babesiosis is a worldwide disease of live stock and different animal like sheep, pigs, horses and dogs. It is the cause of zoonotic disease in humans and in cattle transmitted by ticks worldwide and having different pathogenecities and clinical features. Keeping in views the importance of the disease, the present study was designed to determine the prevalence of babesiosis in cattles of Charsadda and Sawabi districts and to identify the associated ticks in Cows and Calves. For this study 100 ticks and 100 blood samples were collected from different Cows and Calves randomly.