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Canine Babesiosis
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Canine Babesiosis

P.J. Irwin
Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, Vol.40(6), pp.1141-1156
2010
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Abstract

Babesiosis continues to pose a threat to dogs worldwide as a cause of anemia, thrombocytopenia, and a wide variety of clinical signs, ranging from mild, nonspecific illness to peracute collapse and death. Practitioners should be alert to the importance of collecting travel and fight history for a patient and should be aware of new piroplasm species that have been described. Asymptomatic infections necessitate careful screening of potential blood donors using a combination of diagnostic testing procedures. Current treatment strategies for babesiosis often ameliorate the clinical signs of infection, but these hemoparasites are seldom completely eliminated, and when immunocompromised, recrudescence may occur.

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1 Clinical & Life Sciences
1.258 Zoonotic Diseases
1.258.227 Tick-borne Pathogens
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