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Progress in Parasitology pp 135–153Cite as

Small Ruminant Theileriosis

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Theileria parasites, the causative agents of theileriosis, infect a vast number of wild and domestic animals and are transmitted transstadially by various members of tick vectors of the family Ixodidae. Three Theileria species infecting small ruminants have been shown to be responsible for losses in small ruminant production. Two of them, T. uilenbergi and T. luwenshuni have been described to occur in China, whereas T. lestoquardi causes malignant theileriosis in a number of countries like the Sudan, Iran and Iraq. Three other small ruminant Theileria species, T. ovis, T. separata and T. recondita are considered as non-pathogenic.

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Ahmed, J., Yin, H., Bakheit, M., Liu, Z., Mehlhorn, H., Seitzer, U. (2011). Small Ruminant Theileriosis. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Progress in Parasitology. Parasitology Research Monographs, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21396-0_8

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