Title: The brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus and the dog as experimental hosts of Ehrlichia canis.
Abstract: Adult Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks efficiently transmitted Ehrlichia canis to susceptible dogs for 155 days after detachment as engorged nymphs from a dog in the acute phase of ehrlichiosis. Adult ticks that had similarly engorged on a dog in the chronic phase of ehrlichiosis failed to transmit E canis to susceptible dogs. Infected but unfed adult ticks may be of greater importance than the chronically infected carrier dog as a natural reservoir of E canis.
Publication Year: 1977
Publication Date: 1977-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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