Surra or Trypanosomosis is a disease caused by a trypanosome. Trypanosoma evansi is the most widely distributed of the pathogenic animal trypanosome affecting domesticated livestock in Asia, Africa and South America.
Surra affects wide range of hosts including horses, buffaloes, cattles, sheeps, goats, dogs and pigs.Its principal mechanical vector is a blood-sucking fly that belong to genus Tabanus.
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