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Organisms of the genus Theileria are important tick-borne protozoan pathogens of domestic livestock occurring throughout much of the world. In many developing countries the diseases that they cause impose serious constraints on the improvement of livestock, particularly cattle. The two most important species infecting cattle are Theileria annulata and T. parva. Theileria annulata is transmitted by Hyalomma species ticks and occurs across a vast area extending from the Mediterranean to China. It infects domestic or swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) and causes tropical theileriosis in cattle. Theileria parva is a parasite of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and cattle. It is transmitted by Rhipicephalus species ticks in eastern, central, and southern Africa. It causes diseases known variously as January disease, corridor disease and East Coast fever. The distribution of the two parasites does not overlap and Sudan is the only country in which both are known to occur (30).
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Dolan, T.T., McKeever, D.J. (1993). Current and Future Vaccines against Theileriosis. In: Pandey, R., Höglund, S., Prasad, G. (eds) Veterinary Vaccines. Progress in Vaccinology, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9226-2_11
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