Babesia conradae infection in coyote hunting dogs infected with multiple blood-borne pathogens.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Babesia conradae is an intraerythrocytic piroplasm infecting dogs in the southern United States. Ticks have been suspected, but unproven, as vectors. We identified B. conradae and other blood-borne pathogens in 2 kennels of sighthounds with a history of coyote fighting.

Objectives

To examine clinicopathologic abnormalities associated with B. conradae infection, risk factors for infection, and the prevalence of coinfections with other blood-borne pathogens.

Animals

Fifty-five Greyhounds and Greyhound mixes METHODS: Blood samples were collected from each dog for CBC, serum biochemistry panel, conventional and real-time PCR assays (Babesia spp., hemoplasmas, Ehrlichia canis, Bartonella spp., Anaplasma spp., and Rickettsia spp.), vector-borne pathogen ELISA, an

SUBMITTER: Dear JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6189381 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature