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Capillary and venous Babesia canis rossi parasitaemias and their association with outcome of infection and circulatory compromise by Marlies Böhm; Andrew L. Leisewitz; Peter N. Thompson; Johannes P. Schoeman is a Immunology and Microbiology article available to read on EtoBox.

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This observational study of 100 dogs naturally infected with Babesia canis rossi determined whether severity of parasitaemia was associated with outcome of infection and documented the relative distribution of parasitised red blood cells (pRBC) in capillary and venous circulation. The association between increased parasitaemias and outcome with a clinically compromised circulation was also investigated. Outcome was defined as either hospitalisation with death, or hospitalisation with eventual recovery or treatment as an outpatient. Dogs were enrolled if large babesias were found on stained thin capillary blood smears made from an ear prick. Thin venous smears were prepared from jugular or cephalic blood. Parasitaemias were manually counted and expressed as the percent pRBC. Ten dogs died, 50 recovered after hospitalisation and 40 were treated as outpatients. Venous sampling site did not affect venous parasitaemia (P = 0.6). Both capillary and venous parasitaemias of dogs that died were significantly higher than those of dogs that recovered after hospitalisation (P = 0.002) and dogs that were treated as outpatients (P < 0.0001). When assessing the whole group, capillary parasitaemia

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Author

Marlies Böhm; Andrew L. Leisewitz; Peter N. Thompson; Johannes P. Schoeman

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0304-4017)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)