Sentences with phrase «ehrlichia canis»

The Brown Dog tick has recently been identified as a reservoir of Rickettsia, causing Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Ehrlichia canis.

The SNAP ® 4Dx ® Plus Test identifies exposure to five tick - borne pathogens: Borrelia burgdorferi, Ehrlichia canis, Ehrlichia ewingii, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Anaplasma platys, and infection with Dirofilaria immitis (heartworm), spread by mosquitoes.

Ehrlichia canis infection.

After transmission, Ehrlichia canis bacteria spreads throughout the body.

There is a new test for Lyme disease in dogs, known as the Canine SNAP 3Dx or the C6 SNAP test, which tests for C6 antibodies to Lyme disease, and also tests for heartworm disease and ehrlichia canis, another tick borne disease.

Ehrlichia canis infections have been reported in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Monocytic Ehrlichiosis: Monocytic Ehrlichiosis is caused by bacteria called Ehrlichia canis.

Also for dogs, there's the IDEXX 4DX Snap test, which tests for Lyme exposure (in clinically and sub-clinically infected dogs), exposure to Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma platys (tick diseases), detection of antibodies to Ehrlichia canis or Ehrlichia ewingii (more tick disease), and canine heartworm (spread by mosquitoes).

For dogs in North America and world - wide most cases of ehrlichiosis are caused by Ehrlichia canis (canine monocytotropic ehrlichiosis).1 Transmission is always from tick bites.

This test not only checks for heartworm, but it also tests for the following tick - born diseases: Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme), Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia canis, Ehrlichia ewingii and Anaplasma platys.

Since the presence of antibodies to Ehrlichia canis is the basis of the most common diagnostic test, such dogs may be infected yet test negative.

Ehrlichiosis is caused by the rickettsial organism Ehrlichia canis.

Ehrlichia canis is normally susceptible to treatment with tetracycline antibiotics, including doxycycline.

Ehrlichia canis causes the most severe symptoms.

A positive «+» antibody test as used in Idexx «4DX» test detects the presence of antibodies to the organism Ehrlichia canis and is consistent with your dog having been successfully transmitted one or more of the different Ehrlichia bacterial organisms from a protracted tick attachment.

Abstract: Ehrlichia canis is a rickettsia that infects canine monocytes (type of white blood cells) and causes a variety of unique clinical and hematologic signs, including monoclonal gammopathy and clonal expansion of CD8 T cells.

And this test is amazing because it determines exposure to Ehrlichia canis or Ehrlichia ewingii and Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma platys as well as Lyme disease — not all tick diseases but important ones.

Beall reveals that IDEXX studies have just determined that dogs may be at increased risk of chronic kidney disease due to Lyme or Ehrlichia canis.

Not exact matches

The study, found at idexx.com/tickrisk, showed two key findings: 1) dogs with Ehrlichia antibodies in E. canis - endemic areas have a 300 percent increased risk of kidney disease; and 2) dogs with B. burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme disease) antibodies in Lyme - endemic areas have a 43 percent increased risk of kidney disease.