Incidence of Cercopithifilaria bainae in dogs and probability of co-infection with other tick-borne pathogens.

Incidence of Cercopithifilaria bainae in dogs and probability of co-infection with other tick-borne pathogens.

BACKGROUND: Cercopithifilaria bainae is a filarioid parasite that infects dogs, being transmitted by Rhipicephalus sanguineus group ticks in many countries of the Mediterranean basin. This study assessed the incidence density rate (IDR) of infection by C. bainae in dogs and the probability of co-inf...

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Main Authors: Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos, Alessio Giannelli, Riccardo Paolo Lia, Emanuele Brianti, Viviana Domenica Tarallo, Edward B Breitshwerdt, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Dorothee Stanneck, Domenico Otranto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3912174?pdf=render

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