Causative agents and carriers of blood-parasitic diseases of cattle in the Central Aran economic region (Azerbaijan)

The article analyzes the blood-parasitic diseases of cattle in the Kurdamir, Ujar and Geokchay districts located in The Central Aran Economic Region. The types of piroplasmids causing blood-parasitic diseases of cattle, ixodid ticks - carriers of pathogens were identified, and the seasonal dynamics of invasions was studied. During the study, smears were prepared from the peripheral blood of cattle with high fever and recovered animals, as well as internal organs and eggs of ixodid ticks: Boophilus calcaratus, Hyalomma anatolicum, H. plumbeum.