Dogs
Not only Lyme disease, but multiple infections.
Dogs given antibiotics early in Lyme disease improve, but there is serious doubt that the organism is ever entirely eliminated from their body. Many veterinarians feel that Lyme disease goes into remission but continues to lurk in the body in some form.
Transbound Emerg Dis. 2019 Feb 10. doi: 10.1111/tbed.13145.
Molecular prevalence and ecoregion distribution of select tick-borne pathogens in Texas dogs.
Modarelli JJ1, Tomeček JM2, Piccione J3, Ferro PJ3, Esteve-Gasent MD1.
1 Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
2 Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
3 Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
Quote- "The overall molecular infection prevalence of disease was 0.68% borrelial, 1.8% rickettsial and 0.43% babesial pathogens, for a TBD total of 2.73% across Texas.
Higher molecular prevalence was observed when analysed by ecoregion distinction, including 5.78% rickettsial infections by Ehrlichia canis and Anaplasma platys in the Rolling Plains ecoregion, and an average of 1.1%
Borrelia turicatae and 1.0% Babesia gibsoni across detected ecoregions.
To our knowledge, our findings indicate the first molecular detection of A. platys in Texas, and the first report of coinfections with E. canis and A. platys in dogs of Texas.
The zoonotic concerns associated with TBDs, in conjunction with dogs' implication as an effective sentinel for human disease, highlight the importance of characterizing and monitoring regions associated with active infections in dogs."
Source- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30739394
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Maps of Reported Cases of Diseases In Dogs
The following maps highlight the number of reported positive cases of ehrlichiosis (E. canis), Lyme disease, heartworm disease and anaplasmosis in dogs across all regions of the United States and Canada. Because so many dogs go untested for tick-borne diseases, the actual number of dogs infected by ticks is likely many times higher than what is shown here.