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[[Image:Theileria parva life cycle.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Theileria parva'' Life Cycle Diagram - Dennis Jacobs & Mark Fox RVC]]
+[[Image:Lymph node smear East Coast Fever.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Lymph node smear of a cow with East Coast Fever - Drs. Elizabeth Howerth and Bruce LeRoy, Department of Pathology, UGA College of Veterinary Medicine]]
+[[Image:H and E stain brain East Coast Fever.jpg|thumb|right|150px|H and E stain of brain and meningal vessels of a cow with East Coast Fever - Drs. Elizabeth Howerth and Bruce LeRoy, Department of Pathology, UGA College of Veterinary Medicine]]
+[[Image:Theileria cervi.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Theileria cervi'' (deer) - Drs. Elizabeth Howerth and Bruce LeRoy, Department of Pathology, UGA College of Veterinary Medicine]]
+*Main species of veterinary importance is ''Theileria parva''
+**Causes '''East Coast Fever'''
+***Severe, proliferative lymphatic disease of cattle
+***Central and Eastern Africa
+***Transmitted by [[Hard Ticks - Overseas|''Rhipicephalus appendiculatus'']]
+***[[Ticks#Disease Transmission|Trans-stadial]] transmission
+*Other ''Theileria'' species cause production losses in cattle and sheep in the Middle East, Mediterranean and in Northern Africa
+'''Life Cycle'''
+*Incubation phase lasts 1 week
+*Lymphoblast proliferation
+**Local [[Lymph Nodes - Anatomy & Physiology|lymph node]] first infected then spreads through body
+**Occurs in week two
+*Lymphoid depletion
+**[[Lymphocytes - WikiBlood|Lymphocytes]] killed
+**Decreases lymphopoiesis
+**Occurs in week 3
+*Total incubation period takes about 18 days
+'''Diagnosis'''
+*Clinical signs
+**Pyrexia
+**Enlarged local [[Lymph Nodes - Anatomy & Physiology|lymph node]]
+***Usually parotid [[Lymph Nodes - Anatomy & Physiology|lymph node]] as [[Hard Ticks - Overseas|''Rhipicephalus appendiculatus'']] feeds in the ear
+**Loss of condition
+*Examine Giemsa stained smears of:
+**Local [[Lymph Nodes - Anatomy & Physiology|lymph node]] aspirated for schizonts
+**Blood smears for piroplasms in red blood cells
+*Post-mortem
+**Pulmonary oedema
+**Gut mucosal haemorrhages
+**[[Lymph Nodes - Anatomy & Physiology|Lymph node]] and [[Spleen - Anatomy & Physiology|splenic]] cellular atrophy
+'''Control'''
+*Integrated control of both the [[Tick Control|tick vector]] and disease
+**[[Vaccines - WikiBlood|Vaccination]] and [[Ectoparasiticides]]
+*Current [[Vaccines - WikiBlood|vaccination]] is live unattentuated
+**Contains frozen stabilate of ground up tick gut containing infective sporozoites
+**Long lasting oxytetracycline administered at the same time to slow down schizogony giving the immune response time to develop[[Category:Piroplasmida]]