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Seroprevalence of Dogs with Dirofilaria immitis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia burgdorferi and Ehrlichia canis Infection in the Daejeon City and Kangwon Province

Kim, Tae-Hun (Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Yeon-Hee (Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University)
Choi, Jun-Hyuk (Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University)
Park, Hyung-Jin (Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University)
Chung, Dae-Wook (Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Duck-Hwan (Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University)
Song, Kun-Ho (Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University)

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Journal of Veterinary Clinics / v.27, no.6, 2010 , pp. 631-634 More about this Journal

Abstract

This study was conducted to survey Dirofilaria (D.) immitis antigen, and Anaplasma (A.) phagocytophilum, Borrelia (B.) burgdorferi, and Ehrlichia (E.) canis antibodies among clinically healthy dogs in the Daejeon city and Kangwon province. Whole blood samples were collected from two hundred and fifty two dogs (127 females and 125 males, 147 outdoors and 105 indoors), and they were tested by using ELISA kit (SNAP 4Dx, IDEXX Laboratories, USA). Chi-squared analysis showed that A. phagocytophilum of female dogs in outdoors group was significantly higher prevalence than that of female dogs in indoors group (p < 0.05). In addition, infection rate of A. phagocytophilum of over 7 year-old-dogs in outdoors group revealed significantly higher prevalence than that of indoors group (p < 0.01). In E. canis, the under 4 year-old-dogs (p < 0.05), 4~7 year-old-dogs (p < 0.05) and over 7 year-old-dogs (p < 0.01) in outdoor group showed significantly higher prevalence than that of indoors group, respectively. In conclusion, this study is the large scale survey of canine D. immitis antigen, A. phagocytophilum, B. burgdorferi, and E. canis antibodies in the Daejeon city and Kangwon province, and it provides an useful reference for clinicians.

Keywords

Dirofilaria immitis; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ehrlichia canis; seroprevalence; dog;

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