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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages 995-997Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1806.120165
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- National Institutes of Health [5R01AI077784]
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The association between companion animals and tick-borne rickettsial disease has long been recognized and can be essential to the emergence of rickettsioses. We tested whole blood from dogs in temporary shelters by using PCR for rickettsial infections. Of 93 dogs, 12 (13%) were positive for Rickettsia parkeri, an emerging tick-borne rickettsiosis.
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