Prevalence of Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma platys, Babesia canis vogeli, Hepatozoon canis, Bartonella vinsonii berkhoffii, and Rickettsia spp. in dogs from Grenada

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 151, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 279-285

  Yabsley, Michael J ^a,b   McKibben, John ^c   Macpherson, Calum N ^c   Cattan, Peggy F ^d   Cherry, Natalie A ^e   Hegarty, Barbara C ^e   Breitschwerdt, Edward B ^e   O'Connor, Tom ^f   Chandrashekar, Ramaswamy ^f   Paterson, Tara ^c   Perea, Marta Lanza ^c   Ball, Geoffrey ^c   Friesen, Stanley ^c   Goedde, Jill ^c   Henderson, Brooke ^c   Sylvester, Wayne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Anatomic Pathology Service Department of Veterinary Pathobiology College of Veterinary   (United States)

^c ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^d Grenada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals   (Grenada)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f IDEXX LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Babesia; Bartonella; Dog; Ehrlichia; Hepatozoon; Rhipicephalus sanguineus; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PLATYS; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; BARTONELLA VINSONII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DOG; EHRLICHIA CANIS; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GRENADA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFESTATION; INSECT CONTROL; LETHARGY; LEUKOPENIA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRENADA; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PLATYS; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA SP.; BARTONELLA VINSONII; BARTONELLA VINSONII SUBSP. BERKHOFFII; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; HEPATOZOON; HEPATOZOON CANIS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 38049034325     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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