The disease was once considered as "benign" in the literature, in comparison to East coast fever.

The cause of bovine Theileriosis and East Coast fever.

Theiler found that East Coast fever was not the same as redwater, but caused by a different protozoan.

Moreover, he was able to answer one important question as to the lifecycle of the parasite causing African East Coast fever.

East coast fever (Theileria parva)

A form of East Coast fever called corridor disease is observed when the organism is transmitted from the African buffalo to cattle.

One study using the medicinal plant Peganum harmala showed it to have a lifesaving effect on cattle infected with East Coast fever.

East Coast fever (theileriosis) is a disease of cattle, sheep and goats caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.

It can be used to treat bovine East Coast fever protozoa in vitro, along with the only other substance known - Peganum harmala.

T. annulata causes tropical theileriosis and T. parva causes East Coast fever.

Control of ticks of domestic animals is a major concern in tropical countries with large livestock populations, especially in the endemic area of East Coast fever.

Theileria parva is the causative microbe of East Coast fever of cattle in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.

Measuring 8.2 million base pairs, its genome is remarkably similar to the genome of Theileria parva, the cause of East Coast fever (theileriosis) in cattle.

In May 2010, a vaccine to protect cattle against East Coast fever reportedly had been approved and registered by the governments of Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania.

By the end of the 1940s two major curses of Africa had virtually been eliminated - East Coast fever, a tick-borne disease, and nagana, spread by the tsetse fly.

Theileria parva is a parasitic protozoan, named in honour of Arnold Theiler, that causes East Coast fever (theileriosis) in cattle, a costly disease in Africa.

This institute under his leadership carried out research on African horse sickness, sleeping sickness, malaria, East Coast fever (Theileria parva), and tick-borne diseases such as redwater, heartwater, and biliary.

A small study in sheep infected with the protozoal East Coast fever found 'Peganum harmalaextract to be an effective treatment which can be 100% fatal and killed 1.1 million cattle in Africa in 1992.

In Eastern and Southern Africa MCF is classed as one of the five most important problems affecting pastoralists along with East coast fever, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, foot and mouth disease and anthrax.

Its mission was to find methods of controlling two parasitic diseases, theileriosis (also known as East Coast Fever) and trypanosomiasis, which together killed hundreds of thousands of cattle annually in East and Central Africa.

There, urprisingly, they caused no disease when introduced to healthy cattle, leading to the discovery that the disease was not Redwater, but a new protozoan parasite East Coast fever or Theileria parva transmitted by the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus.