Retracted: Corrigendum

Abstract

In this article (Zweygarth et al., 2020), the authors would like to make the follow correction to a sentence published in section 2.1 Theileria spp. schizont-infected cell line, 2nd paragraph on page 36, so that it reads: ''All T. parva-infected cell lines originated from South Africa. The T. parva cell cultures 9656 and 9620 were kindly provided by Ms Boitumelo Maboko of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI). They were previously initiated at the OVI from the blood of calves on which ticks collected in 2017 at a cattle farm in KwaZulu-Natal province had fed.Cell culture 8160 was established in 2007 from the blood of cattle infested with Rhipicephalus zambesiensis adult ticks that had fed as nymphs on a carrier animal infected with the buffalo-derived Hluhluwe 3 isolate (Potgieter et al., 1988)."This sentence replaces the original sentence, which was: ''All T. parva-infected cell lines originated from South Africa. They were previously established at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI) by feeding ticks collected in a KwaZulu-Natal private game reserve in 2017 at the OVI on calves. Blood from these calves was used to initiate T. parva cell cultures 8160, 9596 and 9620.