First study on microscopic and molecular evidences of two bovine hemoplasma species in cattle herds in Al-Qadisiyah Province, Iraq.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

Hemotropic Mycoplasmas are small epierythrocytic bacteria that cause infectious anemia in several livestock species and in humans. Several reports have been made on hemoplasma infections in the south and north of Iraq, but there have been no studies in the middle Euphrates of Iraq. This study aimed to evaluate the presence of hemoplasma species in cattle in Al-Qadisiyah Province, Iraq.

Materials and methods

Two hundred blood samples were collected from cattle with pale mucous membrane from regions with heavy tick endemicity. The samples were analyzed for the presence of Rickettsia pathogens using thin blood smears and the Diff-Quik stains. All the samples were also examined using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the 16S ribosomal ribonucle

SUBMITTER: Khudhair YI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9210837 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature