An outbreak of suspected tick paralysis in one-humped camels (Camelus dromedarius) in the Sudan.
An outbreak of suspected tick paralysis occurred in one-humped camels in Southern Darfur, the Sudan, between latitudes 11-12 degrees N and longitudes 24-25 degrees E, when the camels were herded in tick infested areas. It involved 251 camels of different ages, in ten herds causing 34.3% mortality. The symptoms were incoordination of movements, unsteady gait and recumbency followed by death or recovery. Hyalomma adults and/or Rhipicephalus nymphs and adults were incriminated to be the cause of the disease. Transient paralysis in a guinea pig was produced after experimental feeding of ticks. Removal of the camels from the tick infested areas and treatment against the ectoparasites with Lindane at the concentration of 0.23% contributed to controlling the disease.
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Nyala Regional Veterinary Research Laboratory, Sudan.
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D000818:Animals; D002162:Camelus / Q000469:parasitology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D013397:Sudan; D013985:Tick Paralysis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000662:veterinary*