Association of acute Babesia canis infection and serum lipid, lipoprotein, and apoprotein concentrations in dogs.
Zorana MilanovićJelena VekićVladimir RadonjićAnja Ilić BožovićAleksandra ZeljkovićJelena JanacVesna Spasojević-KalimanovskaJesse BuchRamaswamy ChandrashekarŽanka Bojić-TrbojevićLjiljana HajdukovićMary M ChristopherMilica Kovačević FilipovićPublished in: Journal of veterinary internal medicine (2019)
Major changes associated with B. canis-induced APR in dogs are related to concentration, composition, and morphology of HDL particles pointing to an altered reverse cholesterol transport. Parallel ApoA-1 and SAA concentration increase is a unique still unexplained pathophysiological finding.