Recent concepts in diagnosis of Canine Ehrlichiosis
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2007
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INTAS Polivet
Abstract
Ehrlichiae are one of the several kinds of obligate intracellular pathogens first described at the Pasteur Institute in Algeria by Donatien and Lestoquard in the year 1935. Ehrlichia canis causes canine monocytic ehrlichiosis, a potentially fatal tick borne disease. Besides E.canis, other Ehrlichiae have also been encountered in canines, viz., E.ewingi (Anderson et al., 1992), E.risticii (Kakoma et al., 1994) and E.chaffeensis (Dawson and Ewing, 1992).