A confusing case of canine vector-borne disease: Clinical signs and progression in a dog co-infected with Ehrlichia canis and Bartonella vinsonii ssp. berkhoffii

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 2, Issue SUPPL.1, 2009, Pages

  Breitschwerdt, Edward B ^a   Maggi, Ricardo G ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; DIGOXIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ENALAPRIL; ENROFLOXACIN; FUROSEMIDE; PREDNISONE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; CANINE EHRLICHIOSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOG; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EHRLICHIA CANIS; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION;

BABESIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA VINSONII; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS;

EID: 65949088090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-2-S1-S3     Document Type: Article

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