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VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY
Volume 228, Issue -, Pages 90-92Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2016.08.014
Keywords
Anaplasma platys; Theileria ovis; Camelus dromedarius; Camel; Tick-borne diseases; Nigeria
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- UK Department for International Development (DFID) under the umbrella of the 'Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness (SOS) Programme'
- UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) under the 'Combating Infectious Diseases in Livestock for International Development' (CIDLID) scheme
- European Union's Seventh Framework Program [221948]
- Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonoses (ICONZ)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H009213/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/H009213/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In April 2008, whole blood samples were collected from 36 dromedary camels in Sokoto, Northwestern Nigeria. Following PCR and reverse line blotting, twenty-two samples (61%) resulted positive for Ehrlichia/Anaplasma spp. and three (8%) for Theileriarnabesia spp., with three (8%) cases of co-infections being found. Both sequence and BLAST analyses identified Ehrlichia/Anaplasma spp. and Theileria/Babesia spp. positive cases as Anaplasma platys and Theileria ovis, respectively. This is the first report of the detection of A. platys and T. ovis in camels from sub-Saharan Africa. The epidemiological relevance of this finding is enhanced by the close living of these animals with both dogs and small ruminants. The high prevalence detected for A. platys suggests a possible role of camels as carriers of this infection. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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