Polymerase chain reaction Confirmation of Babesia canis canis and
Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Dogs Suspected of Babesiosis in Slovakia.
Majláthová V, Majláth I, Víchová B, Gul'ová I, Derdáková M,
Sesztáková E,
Pet'ko B
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2011 07 7
Abstract Canine babesiosis was considered an imported tick transmitted
disease until the first case of autochthonous canine babesiosis in
Slovakia was described in 2002. Since then, the number of cases kept
increasing every year. The causative agent of babesiosis in dogs is not
yet characterized; therefore, the aim of our study was to determine the
agent and the rate of infection in the vector tick D. reticulatus in
Slovakia. Babesia canis canis was detected in 80 out of 87 blood samples
from dogs with clinical manifestations of babesiosis. Six dogs suspected
of babesiosis tested positive for presence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum,
and one mixed infection of B. c. canis and A. phagocytophilum was
detected. B. c. canis was detected in 35.6% questing adults of D.
reticulatus. The obtained sequences from blood samples showed 99.7% and
from D. reticulatus, 99.4% similarity with the B. c. canis (AY072926)
from dogs infected in Croatia. In our study, we characterized the agent
of canine babesiosis from blood samples of naturally infected dogs and
D. reticulatus, the vector tick. Further, the presence of A.
phagocytophilum, bacterium responsible for the canine granulocytic
anaplasmosis, was recorded in dogs for the first time in Slovakia.
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