Study of risk factors associated with the prevalence of bovine babesiosis in Mali: case of the Kita region

Diakité, Modibo and Sacko, Brahima and Traoré, Chaka and Sery, Amadou and Koné, Mamadou and Konte, Mahamadou and Bengaly, Sekouba (2025) Study of risk factors associated with the prevalence of bovine babesiosis in Mali: case of the Kita region. World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 21 (3). pp. 206-211. ISSN 2582-5542

This study conducted in 2022 in 6 communes in the Kita region aimed to determine the risk factors associated with the prevalence of Babesia bovis and Babesia bigemina. It involved the analysis of 450 bovine blood samples from the communes of Bougaribaya, Djidjan, Founia-Benkady, Kassaro, Sébécoro and Souransan-Tomoto. The blood samples were examined in the laboratory using the GIEMSA staining technique. This work made it possible to obtain a prevalence of 10.00% of bovine babesiosis. The analysis did not reveal any statistically significant difference (p>0.05) between the communes of Bougaribaya (10.67%), Djidjan (6.67%) Founia Benkady (5.33%), Kassaro (17.33%), Sébécoro (10.67%) and Souransan Tomoto (9.33%). There was no significant difference between male (10.90%) and female (9.21%) cattle by the chi2 test, (p>0.05) 9.21% in female cattle, against 10.90% in males. Statistical analysis of the results revealed a statistically significant difference (p< 0.05) between adult (14.95%) and young (5.51%) cattle.Statistical analysis showed that the risk factor associated with the prevalence of Bebesiosis in this study is age