The clinical signs observed in H. canis-infected dogs in Brazil were anorexia, pale mucous membranes, weight loss, diarrhoea, gait abnormalities, fever, polyuria and polydipsia. The laboratory findings were anemia, leucocytosis with neutrophilia, lymphopenia, monocytosis, and elevated alkaline phosphatase (Gondim et al., 1998; Paludo et al., 2003; Aguiar et al., 2004). All the animals in these ...