“…A variety of methods, including mAb (Bishop et al 1993 b;Pinder & Hewett, 2001), isoenzyme analysis (Allsopp, Gibson & Stagg, 1985), oligonucleotide probes to parasite DNA (Conrad et al 1987 ;Allsopp et al 1989 ;Bishop et al 1993 b;Bishop, Spooner & Sohanpal, 1996), arbitrary-primed PCR and RAPDs (Bishop, Sohanpal & Morzaria, 1993 a ;Sparagano, Zanaa & Ambrose, 1998), minisatellites (Bishop, Morzaria & Gobright, 1998), PCR-RFLP (Geysen et al 1999) and sequencing (Toye et al 1995 ;Collins & Allsopp, 1999) have been used to demonstrate genetic variation in Theileria parva. The number of studies genotyping T. annulata is more restricted, but methods used include isoenzyme analysis (Melrose et al 1984 ;Ben Miled et al 1994 ;Martin-Sanchez & Garcia-Fernandez, 1999), mAb (Shiels et al 1986 a ;Ben Miled et al 1994), oligonucleotide or nucleic acid probes (Ben Miled et al 1994 ;Shiels et al 1995), RAPDs (Martin-Sanchez & Garcia-Fernandez, 1999), and sequencing (Katzer et al 1994(Katzer et al , 1998Shiels et al 1995 ;Gubbels et al 2000). The advantage of the PCR-RFLP method used here for analysing DNA from cloned parasites is its speed, allowing a large number of clones to be genotyped in a relatively short time.…”