Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis

Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasmosis and other Vector Borne Diseases You May Not Be Thinking About

Clinical and Serological Evidence of Canine Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis in Urban and Rural Panama

Canine tick borne disease, such as anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis are common diseases in veterinary practices. Most patients are diagnosed using clinical findings, history of tick bites and hematological findings; however, proper approach to diagnostic is not always feasible. Blood from 104 animal patients from urban and rural areas were analyzed finding 53.84% (n=56) having parameters compatibl...

Successful Treatment of Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis with Rifampin.

Currently recommended treatment regimens for human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) include doxycycline or tetracycline. Antibiotic susceptibility studies demonstrate that rifampin has in vitro bactericidal activity against Ehrlichia. Case reports have suggested clinical response with rifampin treatment of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA). We report the first case of HME successfully treated w...

Canine and Feline Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis

Although tick-borne pathogens are of tremendous historical importance to both veterinary and human medicine, recent events emphasize an expanding role for newly discovered, as well as previously recognized tick-transmitted organisms, as a cause of animal and human suffering. One of the most important new developments related to anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis is the realization that a given mamma...

Exotic diseases of dogs and cats at risk of importation to Ireland

: Changes in legislation that facilitate movement of companion animals within the European Union will expose those animals to microbial and parasitic organisms currently exotic to Ireland. This paper reviewed information on the exotic diseases most likely to be introduced to Ireland by travelling dogs and cats: rabies, leishmaniosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis and dirofilariosis.