Genomic Profiling for Piroplasms in Feeding Ixodid Ticks in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Importation of tick-infected animals and the uncontrollable migration of birds and wild animals across borders can lead to geographical expansion and redistribution of ticks and pathogen vectors, thus leading to the emergence and re-emergence of tick-borne diseases in humans and animals. Comparatively, little is known about the occurrence of piroplasms in ixodid ticks in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, thus necessitating this study, which is aimed at detecting piroplasms (Theileria and Babesia) from feeding tick samples collected from cattle, sheep, and goats in selected sites in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. A total of 1200 feeding ixodid ticks collected from farm animals at selected homesteads were first subjected to molecular identification using mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA (rRNA)

SUBMITTER: Adelabu OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7767023 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature