Tick-Borne Diseases: European Livestock Animals
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_5008-1
Food supply in people-rich countries in Europe is based on products obtained from cattle and other ruminants. Thus the tick-borne diseases of these animals are important factors for the market prizes of such products. Table
1 shows important agents of diseases and their vectors.
Table 1
Most common tick-transmitted agents of disease in European livestock animals
Pathogen |
Tick vector |
Geographical range |
|---|---|---|
Parasitic diseases |
||
Babesia bigemina |
Rhipicephalus bursa |
Southern Europe |
Boophilus spp. |
||
Babesia divergens |
Ixodes ricinus |
Europe |
Babesia bovis |
Rhipicephalus bursa |
Corsica |
Boophilus spp. |
Temperate/southern Europe |
|
Babesia major |
Haemaphysalis punctata |
Temperate/northern Europe |
Theileria annulata |
Hyalomma spp. |
Mediterranean basin |
Theileria orientalis |
Haemaphysalis punctata |
Mediterranean basin (also reported in Brittany) |
Bacterial diseases |
||
Anaplasma marginale |
Ixodes ricinus |
Wide |
Rhipicephalus spp. |
||
Dermacentor reticulatus |
||
Dermacentor marginatus |
||
Anaplasma phagocytophilum |
Ixodes ricinus |
Western... |
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Further Reading
- Chauvet S, L’Hostis M (2005) Les tiques bovines: biologie, répartitionetrôlevecteur. Le Point Vétérinaire 255:22–26Google Scholar
- Dantas-Torres et al (2012) Ticks and tick borne diseases: a one-health perspective. Trends Parasitol 28:437–446CrossRefPubMedGoogle Scholar
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