Retrospective clinical and molecular analysis of conditioned laboratory dogs (Canis familiaris) with serologic reactions to Ehrlichia canis, Borrelia burgdorferi, and Rickettsia rickettsii

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 23-28

  Scorpio, Diana G ^a   Wachtman, Lynn M ^a,b   Tunin, Richard S ^a   Barat, Nicole C ^a   Garyu, Justin W ^a,c   Dumler, J Stephen ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMA PLATYS; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLEEDING; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEMOSTASIS; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; HYPERMETABOLISM; HYPERPROTEINEMIA; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFESTATION; LEUKOPENIA; LYME DISEASE; MALAISE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; LYME DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMA PLATYS; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII;

EID: 54149086709     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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