INCIDENCE OF THEILERIAL PARASITES IN EAST-AFRICAN BUFFALO (SYNCERUS CAFFER CAFFER)

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 29  (3) , 281-288
Abstract
Buffalo (245) from 13 areas of East Africa were examined for theilerial infections. The vast majority of buffalo (97.1%) examined had piroplasms in their erythrocytes. Theileria lawrencei was isolated from the buffalo by tick feeding and cell culture and was common in most of these buffalo populations. Also > 50% of the buffalo had indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) titers to T. lawrencei. T. mutans was not only isolated from 3 buffalo populations but was probably common. Haematoxenus sp. was detected in the blood of 56% of the buffalo sampled. The role of buffalo as a reservoir of cattle pathogenic theilerioses in East Africa is discussed.

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