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Detection of Cercopithifilaria bainae infection in shelter dogs and ticks in Oklahoma, USA
2020-03-24
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<h4>Background: </h4> Cercopithifilaria bainae is a filarioid nematode of dogs. Infection with the parasite was not reported in the USA until 2017, when a dog with skin lesions in Florida was diagnosed. Brown dog ticks, Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato, are the purported tick vectors, and are widespread in the USA. Therefore, C. bainae is likely present in additional states. Here, we tested dogs and ticks in Ok...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a5d51d0e-3ff2-59bf-97f0-a0a7b8862574
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.18980/v3
