Serologic and molecular detection of granulocytic
ehrlichiosis in Rhode Island.
This disease is tick-borne, as are the pathogens for Lyme disease and for
ehrlichiosis. In many cases, a dog will test positive for multiple tick-borne illnesses at the same time.
The most common ones encountered in the country are
ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis, both bacteria infecting the white blood cells or platelets.
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Ehrlichiosis is most likely to affect people whose immune systems are compromised (like the elderly, and people being treated for cancer, AIDS, and auto-immune diseases).
Seventeen (17) dogs of different breed (Labrador-7, Mongrel-3, Spitz-3, German shepherd-2, Boxer and Great dane each one, sex (13 male and 4 female) and age group varied from 2 years to 5 years exhibiting signs of
Ehrlichiosis and Babesiosis such as high temperature (104-106 (o)F), epistaxis, inappetance, ecchymotic hemorrhages on ventral abdomen hemoglobinuria were clinically examined.
Human monocytic
ehrlichiosis (HME) is one of the most common, potentially life-threatening tickborne illnesses in the United States.
Positive control was serum from a dog previously diagnosed with clinical
ehrlichiosis and a positive IFAT (1: 400) confirmed by a positive PCR analysis.
Other tick-borne obligate intracellular bacteria pathogenic to humans are E chaffeensis and E ewingii, members of the order Rickettsiales, and agents of human monocytotropic
ehrlichiosis (HME) and ewingii
ehrlichiosis, respectively.
Among the topics are the interaction of the host immune system with arthropod and arthropod-borne infectious agents, babesiosis and cytauxzoonosis, haemoplasmosis,
ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis, and rickettsial infections.
Ehrlichia canis, the etiological agent of canine monocytic
ehrlichiosis (CME), is a bacteria distributed worldwide that may cause lethal disease in dogs (AGUIAR et al., 2015).