Detection of Bartonella spp. in dogs after infection with Rickettsia rickettsii.

Erin W Lashnits Pradeep Neupane Ricardo G MaggiKeith E LinderJulie M BradleyNandhakumar BalakrishnanBrittany L SouthernGabriel P McKeonRamaswamy ChandrashekarEdward B Breitschwerdt

Published in: Journal of veterinary internal medicine (2019)

Vector-borne disease exposure was demonstrated in research dogs from a commercial vendor. Despite limitations, our results support the possibilities of recrudescence of chronic subclinical Bartonella spp. infection after Rr infection and horizontal direct-contact transmission between dogs.

Keyphrases

drug induced
loop mediated isothermal amplification
real time pcr
sensitive detection
quantum dots