Molecular Detection and Genotyping of Babesia species in cattle in Baghdad city

Abstract

In cross-sectional study carried in areas surrounding  Baghdad province (Dora , Nahrawan, Tajy and Abu Graib )respectively. During June -December 2016, for detection of cattle Babesiosis. One hundred fifty (150) clinically healthy local cattle breeds of different ages, and from both sex were included by molecular detection of Babesiosis by Conventional polymerase chain reaction PCR .  Results revealed that the  species of Babesia during this study were Babesia  bovis  and they were detected in 15/150 of cases ( 10% ), Gene sequencing and phylogenetic tree were done for the isolated species and the results revealed the similarity of our detected species with other species of neighbor countries published in Gene Bank for  Babesia bovis  with little differences .infection detected in all parts of the study and included all age groups of cattle. Our isolates showing clear gene Diversity compared with others genes recorded in neighboring countries.