Survey for bovine and ovine theileriosis in Babil governorate

Abstract

Four hundred and fourty tow blood smear were collected ( 360 smears from cow , 102 smears from sheep ) in Babylon and examined with Giemsa stain to investigate schizontes in leukocytes .The study revealed that 88.3%(408 /462) showed positive reaction.Of 360 samples of cows, 316 was showed positive, while 44 (12.2 %) showed negative results .So of 102 samples of sheep , 92 (90.1%) was showed positive while 10(9.8 %) showed negative results. It concluded that the morbidity rate of theileriosis in Babylon were 87.7% and 90.1% in cow and sheep respectively in 2010 .