PREVALENCE OF TICKS INFESTING BUFFALOES IN AND AROUND JAMPUR DISTRICT RANJANPUR, PAKISTAN

In Pakistan, parasitism is a crucial problem which causes health problems in farm animals production, based on weather, water availability, land use and physiographic areas of Pakistan have suitable climatic conditions for ticks, which can infest a various hosts and transmit disease to human being and farm animals (Durrani and Shakoori, 2009). [...]present study was designed with the objective to study the overall prevalence of ticks infesting buffaloes and their relationship with sex and age of hosts. Above comparison shows that the dissimilarity between the results of present and previous studies might be due to differences in the geographical places, seasonal conditions of the experimental sites, methods of experiments, collection of sampling animal and hosts resistant to ticks. First pilot study on the prevalence of tick infestation in livestock of Tehsil Hajira, Rawalakot, Azad Kashmir.