CLINICAL AND HAEMATOLOGICAL FEATURES OF STRESS INDUCED BABESIOSIS IN BABESIA EQUI INFECTED INDIGENOUS HORSES

Studies on actively stressed 3. equi infected premuned indigenous polo horses, manifested severe clinical syndromes characterised by partial anorexia, hyperthermia, lethargy, extreme weakness, marked dehydration, ecchymotic third eyelid, pale mucous membranes, sternal recumbency and coma. Some horses showed complete obvious colicy symptoms, watery blood, haemoglobinuria. The haematological changes in the affected included highly significantly (P<0.01) low packed cell volume, reduced haemoglobin concentration, depleted red blood counts neutrophils lymphocytes.