**1. Introduction**

Bacterial tick-borne diseases (BTBDs) affect the productivity of livestock animals in various regions of the world, leading to a significant adverse impact on the production of resource-poor farming communities. Hence, the livestock industry has become an integral part of world economy, and the large number of dairy cattle is being imported between continents in order to meet an increasing demand of meat and dairy products, it is essential to review current status of bovine BTBDs and to identify diagnosis and prevention in the knowledge of BTBDs and their prevention. Although there has been a recent increase in the number of studies of BTBDs in

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various geographical regions, information on their prevalence, distribution, tick vectors and control is limited.
