Volume: 56 Issue: 1
Year: 2025, Page: 25-31, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2025.56.1.25-31
Received: Sept. 4, 2024 Accepted: Oct. 9, 2024 Published: March 31, 2025
The present study was conducted in 200 client-owned dogs presented to the University veterinary hospitals, Kokkalai and Mannuthy during the period from January 2023 to December 2023, with clinical signs of inappetence, pyrexia, pale mucous membrane and lethargy suggestive of babesiosis. Among the 200 dogs screened using PCR targeting the 18S rRNA gene of B. vogeli, a higher percentage of positive cases (31.5%) was found compared to light microscopy (25%), and these dogs underwent haematological analysis. The severity of the disease was assessed based on the variations in haematological parameters which were compared with values of 60 healthy dogs. Haematological analysis of affected dogs revealed mild anaemia and moderate thrombocytopaenia with highly significant variation in total lymphocyte count, total erythrocyte count, haemoglobin concentration, the volume of packed red cells, mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, platelet count and plateletcrit in infected animals compared to healthier ones. The findings of the current study indicated that all the biomarkers of anaemia and thrombocytopaenia could be used as a prognostic indicator in canine babesiosis caused by Babesia vogeli in field conditions and veterinary facilities.
Keywords: Dogs, anaemia, Babesia vogeli, thrombocytopenia, plateletcrit
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