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ReviewVeterinary world2016

Important hemoprotozoan diseases of livestock: Challenges in current diagnostics and therapeutics: An update.

Biswa Ranjan Maharana, Anup Kumar Tewari, Buddhi Chandrasekaran Saravanan, Naduvanahalli Rajanna Sudhakar

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Review in Veterinary world, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  19. An atypical case of Babesia bigemina parasitising a dog from a rural area of eastern Mexico.Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Biswa Ranjan MaharanaDepartment of Veterinary Parasitology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh, Gujarat, India.
Anup Kumar TewariDivision of Parasitology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Buddhi Chandrasekaran SaravananDivision of Parasitology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Naduvanahalli Rajanna SudhakarDivision of Parasitology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Indian Veterinary Research Institute · INJunagadh Agricultural University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hemoprotozoan parasites pose a serious threat to the livestock population in terms of mortality, reduced milk yield and lowered draft power. Diagnosis of these diseases often poses a challenging task. Needless to say that impact of disease in health and productivity is huge though a fair economic assessment on the quantum of economic loss associated is yet to be worked out from India. The diagnosis of hemoprotozoan infections largely depends on various laboratory-based diagnostic methods as the clinical manifestations are often inconspicuous and non-specific. Traditional diagnostic methods rely on microscopical demonstration of infective stages in blood or tissue fluids. However, it is laborious, lesser sensitive, and cannot differentiate between morphologically similar organisms. Recent development in the technologies has opened new avenues for improvement in the accurate diagnosis of parasitic infections. Serological tests are simple, fast but lack specificity. With advent of molecular techniques, as DNA hybridization assays, polymerase chain reaction and its modifications ensure the detection of infection in the latent phase of the disease. Nucleic acid-based assays are highly sensitive, free from immunocompetence and can differentiate between morphologically similar parasites. With the advent of newer diagnostics complemented with traditional ones will be of huge help for targeted selective treatment with better chemotherapeutic agents.

Indexed as

AnaplasmaBabesiachemotherapyhemoprotozoamolecular diagnosisTheileriaTrypanosoma

Identifiers

PMID27284225
PMCPMC4893720
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