| ticks and tick-borne bovine piroplasmosis in the southmountain pasture of hunan province, china. | ticks and tick-borne bovine piroplasmosis is one of the most serious diseases affecting cattle bred in the southmountain pasture of hunan province. an investigation carried out from 1992 to 1995 showed that theileria sergenti was found in the blood of disease-stricken cows. ticks were collected from cattle. the species concerned (three genera and four species of ticks: haemaphysalis vietnamensis, haemaphysalis longicornis, ixodes sinensis and boophilus microplus) were identified by microscopy an ... | 1997 | 9512740 |