Identification of the causative agent of canine babesiosis in the Kirov Region
| Autor: | O. O. Skornyakova |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine
dogs Veterinary medicine QH301-705.5 Ehrlichia canis Piroplasma babesia (piroplasma) canis 030231 tropical medicine babesia (piroplasma) gibsoni 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine piroplasmosis morphology medicine Parasite hosting Biology (General) Babesia infection biology babesiosis Babesiosis General Medicine 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Peripheral blood Canis Babesia |
| Zdroj: | Российский паразитологический журнал, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 24-28 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2541-7843 1998-8435 |
| DOI: | 10.31016/1998-8435-2021-15-2-24-28 |
| Popis: | The purpose of the research is identifying a species of the causative agent of canine babesiosis in the Kirov Region.Materials and methods. To determine the parasite species, we microscopically examined smears from the peripheral blood of sick dogs stained by the Romanowsky-Giemsa method and Leucodif. The microscopy was performed with a binocular microscope Micromed-1. For morphometric assessment of the causative agent, we used a digital camera and software for image analysis ToupView.Results and discussion. We found parasites of various shapes and sizes in erythrocytes of the dogs’ blood in an amount from 1 to 4, rarely 8, 16, and 32. Parasites having large paired pear-shaped forms prevailed (100% in Kirov and 92.86% in Vyatskiye Polyany), which were mainly connected by thin ends at an acute angle and located in the center of an erythrocyte. In Vyatskiye Polyany, we found single small pear-shaped parasites in 7.14%, that were also located along the periphery of an erythrocyte. Based on morphological features, the causative agent of “large” Babesia infection (piroplasmosis) of dogs in the Kirov Region is Babesia (Piroplasma) canis (Piana et Galli Walerio, 1895), and of small Babesia infection of dogs is B. (P.) gibsoni (Patton, 1910). In the Kirov City environment, babesiosis proceeds in monoinfection (81.58% prevalence of infection), and the B. canis infection rate is 28.57% in the south of the Region. We recorded a mixed infection of B. canis + Anaplasma sp. (35.71%), B. canis + Anaplasma sp. + Ehrlichia canis (14.29%), B. canis + E. canis (14.29%), and B. gibsoni + Anaplasma sp. (7.14%) in 71.43%. |
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