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JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES
Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 699-703Publisher
WILDLIFE DISEASE ASSOC, INC
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-47.3.699
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Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Ehrlichia canis; histopathology; PCR; red fox; Vulpes vulpes
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During the 2007-2008 hunting season, 150 spleen samples were collected from free-ranging red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in central Italy. The specimens were tested by two nested PCR assays to detect DNA of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, etiologic agent of granulocytic ehrlichiosis of animals and humans, and DNA of Ehrlichia canis, which causes the monocytic ehrlichiosis in canids. None of the foxes were PCR-positive for E. canis; 25 (16.6%) were positive for A. phagocytophilum. No specific gross alterations were detected at necropsy, and no histopathologic lesions found on PCR-positive spleen samples.
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