Prevalence of haemoprotozoa in cattle of Mizoram, India

ABSTRACT

The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of haemoprotozoa in cattle of Mizoram from April 2017 to March 2018. The prevalence was studied in relation to age, sex breed of animals and seasonal changes in a year. Random blood samples were collected from both organized farms and unorganized cattle farms. A total of 1,153 cattle were screened and out of which 384 (33.30%) cattle were found to be positive for haemoprotozoa. Significantly (p < 0.05) higher infection was observed in female cattle (33.67%) than males (28.73%). Age-wise highest prevalence of haemoprotozoa was found in 1–5 years (44.33%) age group followed by > 5 years age group (25.06%) and < 1 year (22.92%) age group, respectively. Seasonally, the prevalence of haemoprotozoa was found highest in monsoon (51.29%) and lowest in winter (15.09%). The present study provides data on haemoprotozoa in cattle of Mizoram, India.

KEYWORDS:

• Haemoprotozoa
• cattle
• prevalence
• Mizoram
• India

Acknowledgments

The authors thankfully acknowledge to the State Animal Husbandry Department and Joint Director – ICAR-NEH, Govt. of India for providing the facility to collect the sample throughout the state. The authors duly acknowledge to the Dean, CVSc&AH, CAU, Selesih, Aizawl, Mizoram for providing funds with necessary facilities to conduct this study under the Department of Veterinary Parasitology.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was funded as M.V.Sc. research grant to the first author (No.CAU/CVSc/Para/MVSc/S. Ghosh) by the Central Agricultural University, Manipur, India under the supervision of Department of veterinary Parasitology, College of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry, Selesih, Aizawl, Mizoram, India.