Clinical and hematological study of canine Ehrlichiosis with other hemoprotozoan parasites in Kolkata,West Bengal,India
Clinical and hematological study of canine Ehrlichiosis with other hemoprotozoan parasites in Kolkata,West Bengal,India作者机构:Department of Veterinary MicrobiologyWest Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences Department of Veterinary Surgery and RadiologyWest Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences
出 版 物:《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》 (亚太热带生物医学杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2013年第3卷第11期
页 面:913-915页
学科分类:090603[农学-临床兽医学] 0710[理学-生物学] 0831[工学-生物医学工程(可授工学、理学、医学学位)] 09[农学] 0906[农学-兽医学]
主 题:Canine Clinical Ehrlichiosis Hematological Hemoprotozoan Kolkata
摘 要:Objective:To observe other hemoprotozoan diseases with canine ehrlichiosis und to evaluate the clinical and hematological aspects of dogs naturally infected with ehrlichiosis with other hemoprotozoun diseases.Methods:Blood was collected for hematological value and Giemsa stained blood smear was made for diagnosis of Ehrlichia sp.and other hemoprotozoan parasites from naturally infected dogs.Case history was taken from the owner and clinical signs and symptoms were noted.Results:A total of 47 cases of ehrlichiosis in dogs were reported with babesiosis(8.51%)and hepatozoonosis(6.38%)hemoprotozoan diseases.Ehrlichia cams,Ehrlichia ewingii,Brucella canis,Babesia gibsoni and Hepatozoon canis were observed under oil immersion lense of microscope in Giemsa stained peripheral blood smears.Marked anaemia and neutrophilic leukocytosis were observed.Conclusions:The results of this study stated that clinical and haeinatological changes occurred in canine ehrlichiosis with babesiosis and hepatozoonosis due to parasitemia.In mixed infection,the disease more severe,and also it depended on immunity of animals.Babesia gibsoni and Hepatozoon canis with Ehrlichia sp.were first reported from West Bengal state of India by this study.