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Detection of Theileria luwenshuni in sheep from Great Britain

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, April 2016
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Title
Detection of Theileria luwenshuni in sheep from Great Britain
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13071-016-1486-5
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Authors

L. Paul Phipps, Luis M. Hernández-Triana, Hooman Goharriz, David Welchman, Nicholas Johnson

Abstract

Theileria spp. are tick-borne protozoan parasites of the Phylum Apicomplexa, Order Piroplasmida that infect a wide range of wild and domestic animals. In Great Britain, Theileria spp. have been reported from livestock associated with transmission by the tick Haemaphysalis punctata. However, these reports have not been associated with disease. This study has investigated the cause of a disease outbreak accompanied by mortality in a flock of sheep grazing reclaimed marshland in north Kent. A polymerase chain reaction-reverse line blot assay indicated the presence of Theileria spp. in blood samples from five animals. Subsequent testing with a pan-piroplasm PCR of a larger panel of blood samples detected a piroplasm amplicon in 19 of 21 sheep submitted from the affected flock. Automated sequencing confirmed that these amplicons shared 99-100 % identity with T. luwenshuni. The clinical and PCR data suggest infection with T. luwenshuni was associated with disease and mortality in this flock.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Colombia 1 3%
Unknown 35 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 24%
Student > Master 8 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 10 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 9 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 5%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 12 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 June 2016.
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#3,285,204
of 22,862,742 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#719
of 5,470 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#55,776
of 300,866 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#21
of 187 outputs
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