THEILERIA HIRCI
- Similar to T.annulata in cattle, but in sheep and goat.
- 50-100% most highly fatal.
- Morphology: Similar to T.annulata, schizogony in lymphocytes of spleen
- Vector : Rhipicephalus bursa
- Infection is mild in young animals
- Acute sub -acute and chronic disease seen
- Emaciation, fever listlessness, atony of rumen, weakness anaemia icterus, haemoglobinuria,swollen lymph nodes,
- Liver and spleen enlarged
- Lung oedematous, infarction in kidney
- Petechiae in abomasum
- Diagnosis by blood smear examination
- Treatment Similar to T.annulata
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