Trypanosomosis (T. evansi) is one of the commonest disease of dromedaries.
Only Iranian colleagues have encountered trypanosomosis in bactrian camels (F1 hybrids) . So perhaps it occurs also in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
In attachment you'll find the best published paper on T. evansi and Surra I ever read.
As you see bactrians can also be infected.
"Trypanosoma evansi can affect almost all mammals and even some birds." That's it!
Thank you Alireza for the very interesting article.
I think you misunderstood me! I never doubt that bactrian camels could be affected by trypanosomosis. My original question was if trypanosomosis had been diagnosed IN THE FIELD in bactrian camels in Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia etc. On this issue the paper does not answer very clearly a part to mention that T evansi is present in China, Mongolia , Russia. While trypanosomosis in dromedary is predominantly a chronic disease with late term abortion (and this is perhaps one of the most important and common clinical sign of infection) the paper do not clearly mention that in bactrian camels it seems to be the opposite and trypanosomosis seems to be very acute. The paper also omit to mention that diminazene aceturate is not a very safe drug to use in dromedaries (and should not be used) while it can be used in bactrian camels.
What I was looking was for some colleague from from China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia etc reporting the clinical signs and treatment adopted to treat a natural occurring trypanosomosis infection in a herd of bactrian camels under normal pastoral conditions. Unfortunately it seems everybody is a scientist and veterinarians who work in the field with camel nomads are not there !
Occurrence of the disease in "countries of the former USSR, Indochina, South China" has been mentioned (Ref: Medicine and Surgery of Camelids, Third Edition, 2010, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 248-249). Also, particularly in Bactrian camels of the USSR the disease has occurred (Ref: Br Vet J, 141(1): 89. However, I don't know from which part of USSR the disease was diagnosed, and access to old Russian publications of 1921-1976 is not feasible for me!
Regarding the treatment as you have already wrote Diminazene has been successfully used in Bactrian camels (Luckins,1992) (Ref: Infectious Diseases of Camelids, Second Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, p.280).
This is all I know, but perhaps asking from Dr. Fowler could be a good idea.
Please keep me updated with the news and therapeutic management. Thanks.
I agree with you Alireza that there must be a wealth of knowledge regarding trypanosomosis in Bactrian camel among Russian colleagues and Russian publications. Too bad that language and difficulty in retrieving such articles are such big obstacles. I will be happy to keep you informed but probably for some relevant information I will have to spend some time in bactrian countries. Kind regards
Maurizio, perhaps you can ask researchers who know Russian language, for example our colleagues from Kazakhstan? I can read Russian, but it is a bit tricky for me to find publications in Russian. I guess most of them are still not on the Internet.
I sometimes use Wikipedia to find information in other languages. For example, if I search Trypanosomiasis in English in Wikipedia, then I just click the language that I am actually interested in (down on the left side) to find more information and references in that language. If I can't read the language, I can try to use Google Translate. :)
Link to trypanosomiasis in Russian Wikipedia (but nothing about camels as far as I can see, just as an example): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B7%D1%8B
And here is the Russian Wikipedia info about camels: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B4%D1%8B
So if you combine these, you can copy and paste the words you want to search for. :)
For example, try these terms:
Верблюды and Трипаносомозы , or Су-ауру that is a kazakh term for the disease.
So I found this in Russian, describing the disease but nothing about case findings in Bactrians: http://www.webvet.ru/disease/su-auru-tripanosomoz/
Here is a maybe more useful article about the disease in west Kazakhstan. It might contain something of what you ask for, but it is a lot of text and I don't have time to read it now, because I read quite slowly in Russian (sorry). Try to use a translation tool or ask a Russian-speaking person who can tell you if it has what you ask for. http://bibliofond.ru/view.aspx?id=811979
Good luck!
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