Epidemiology of Tick Borne Heamoprotozoan Infection in Ruminants in District Peshawar, and Periphery, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, (Pakistan)

Heamoprotozoans are responsible for considerable economic losses in livestock in Pakistan. In the present study 1101 blood samples (690 cattle ( Bos indicus ), 243 Buffaloes ( Bubalus bubalis ) 108 sheep, and 60 goats) were examined for blood parasites from June 2013 to June 2016. The overall prevalence of theileriosis in three years was found to be 67.39, 15.63, 15.74, and 0 % in cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goats, respectively. The prevalence of babesiosis in three years was found to be 15.79, 51.44, 14.81 and 41.66 % in cattle, buffaloe, sheep and goats, respectively. The prevalence of anaplasmosis in three years was found to be 2.9, 13.99, 29.63, and 1.66 % in cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goats respectively. The highest prevalence of theileriosis, babesiosis and anplasmosis was recorded in cattle, buffaloes and sheep respectively, while goats showed negligible small prevalence percentage of anplasmosis and Zero % of theileriosis.