Tick Infestation and Tick-borne Diseases Infection of Dogs in Okinawa Island

• INOKUMA Hisashi

  Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University

• YAMAMOTO Shizuo

  麻布大学環境保健学部

• TANAHARA Norimi

  沖縄県動物愛護センター

• KIYUNA Tsuyoshi

  沖縄県動物愛護センター

• Ohshiro Shoshin

  沖縄県動物愛護センター

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 沖縄島における犬のマダニ寄生およびマダニ媒介性疾患の感染状況
• オキナワトウ ニ オケル イヌ ノ マダニ キセイ オヨビ マダニ バイカイセ

Abstract

Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks were detected from 58 (57.4%) and 2, respectively, of 101 dogs examined in Okinawa Island. Of 170 sera 25 (14.7%) and 3 were positive for antibodies to Ehrlichia canis and Hepatozoon canis, respectively, while 16 (9.4%) had antibody to Babesia gibsoni. On the smear samples of peripheral blood from 164 dogs, there were no infected cells with E. canis or H. canis, while 8 of 164 (4.9%) were shown to be infected with Babesia spp. Microfilarias were seen on the peripheral blood from 35 of 164 (21.3%) dogs, and all of them were morphologically identified as those of mosquito-borne Dirofilaria immitis but not of tick-borne Dipetalonema spp.

Journal

• Journal of the Japan Veterinary Medical Association

  Journal of the Japan Veterinary Medical Association 51 (7), 361-364, 1998

  Japan Veterinary Medical Association

Keywords

• dogs
• epidemiology
• Okinawa Island tick-borne disease

Details

• CRID: 1390001204707377536
• NII Article ID: 130004051917
• NII Article ID: 10018948849
• NII Book ID: AN00191857
• DOI: 10.12935/jvma1951.51.361
• ISSN: 21860211
• ISSN: 04466454
• ISSN: http://id.crossref.org/issn/87507943
• NDL BIB ID: 4523741
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I4523741
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/1998220029
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