Doxycycline treatment of asymptomatic dogs seropositive for Ehrlichia canis
Lanza-Perea, Marta; Kumthekar, Sachin ; Sabarinath, Arathy; Karpathy, Sandor E. ; Sharma, Ravindra N. ; Stone, Diana M. .
West indian veterinary journal
; 9(2): 11-13, Dec. 2009.
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In Grenada, West Indies dogs are at frequent exposure to the rickettsial pathogen, Ehrlichia canis, as demonstrated by high seroprevalence rates. However, many of these seropositive dogs are clinically normal. In this study we identified clinically normal, E. canis seropositive dogs and assigned half to an antibiotic treatment group and half to a no treatment group. All dogs were evaluated for the presence of E. canis DNA by PCR on whole blood before, during and after treatment. Only one seropositive dog was also PCR+ before treatment. Our results suggest that most clinically normal, E. canis seropositive dogs in a highly endemic geographic area are not concurrently infected and thus routine treatment of clinically normal, seropositive dogs is not warranted.
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Ubicación: TT5; W1, JO91517
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