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However, information on these pathogens in yaks (<jats:italic>Bos grunniens<\/jats:italic>) and Tibetan sheep (<jats:italic>Ovis aries<\/jats:italic>) on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), China, is limited. In this study, <jats:italic>Anaplasma<\/jats:italic> spp., <jats:italic>Babesia<\/jats:italic> spp. and <jats:italic>Theileria<\/jats:italic> spp. infections were assessed in yaks and Tibetan sheep from Qinghai Province.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A total of 734 blood samples were collected from 425 yaks and 309 Tibetan sheep at nine sampling sites. Standard or nested polymerase chain reaction was employed to screen all the blood samples using species- or genus-specific primers.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The results showed that 14.1% (60\/425) of yaks and 79.9% (247\/309) of Tibetan sheep were infected with at least one pathogen. <jats:italic>Anaplasma ovis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Anaplasma bovis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Anaplasma capra<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Anaplasma phagocytophilum<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Babesia bovis<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Theileria<\/jats:italic> spp<jats:italic>.<\/jats:italic> were detected in this study, with total infection rates for all the assessed animals of 22.1% (162\/734), 16.3% (120\/734), 23.6% (173\/734), 8.2% (60\/734), 2.7% (20\/734) and 19.3% (142\/734), respectively. For yaks, the infection rate of <jats:italic>A. bovis<\/jats:italic> was 6.4% (27\/425), that of <jats:italic>B. bovis<\/jats:italic> was 4.7% (20\/425) and that of <jats:italic>Theileria<\/jats:italic> spp. was 3.3% (14\/425). Moreover, 52.4% (162\/309) of the Tibetan sheep samples were infected with <jats:italic>A. ovis<\/jats:italic>, 30.1% (93\/309) with <jats:italic>A. bovis<\/jats:italic>, 56.0% (173\/309) with <jats:italic>A. capra<\/jats:italic>, 19.4% (60\/309) with <jats:italic>A. phagocytophilum<\/jats:italic> and 41.4% (128\/309) with <jats:italic>Theileria<\/jats:italic> spp.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p> This study revealed the prevalence of <jats:italic>Anaplasma<\/jats:italic> spp., <jats:italic>Babesia<\/jats:italic> spp. and <jats:italic>Theileria<\/jats:italic> spp. in yaks and Tibetan sheep in Qinghai Province, China, and provides new data for a better understanding of the epidemiology of TBPs in these animals in this area of the QTP, China.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Graphical Abstract<\/jats:title>\n                \n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13071-021-05109-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,23]],"date-time":"2021-12-23T11:02:43Z","timestamp":1640257363000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Molecular detection of Anaplasma spp., Babesia spp. and Theileria spp. in yaks (Bos grunniens) and Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries) on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Yongcai","family":"He","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wangkai","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ping","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yaoping","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ruishan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhihong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuyu","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tongsheng","family":"Qi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jinfang","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yali","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jixu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ming","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"5109_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"489","DOI":"10.1089\/152702901753397054","volume":"2","author":"T Wu","year":"2001","unstructured":"Wu T. 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