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SUBMITTER: Alanazi AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7823254 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alanazi Abdullah D AD Alouffi Abdulaziz S AS Alyousif Mohamed S MS Alshahrani Mohammad Y MY Alshahrani Mohammad Y MY Abdullah Hend H A M HHAM Abdel-Shafy Sobhy S Calvani Nichola Eliza Davies NED Ansari-Lari Maryam M Sazmand Alireza A Otranto Domenico D
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20201231 1
Dogs and cats play an important role as reservoirs of vector-borne pathogens, yet reports of canine and feline vector-borne diseases in Saudi Arabia are scarce. Blood samples were collected from 188 free-roaming dogs and cats in Asir (70 dogs and 44 cats) and Riyadh (74 dogs), Saudi Arabia. The presence of <i>Anaplasma</i> spp., <i>Bartonella</i> spp., hemotropic <i>Mycoplasma</i> spp., <i>Babesia</i> spp., and <i>Hepatozoon</i> spp. was detected using a multiplex tandem real-time PCR. PCR-posit ...[more]