Table 4 Prevalence of tick-borne pathogen infection in dog serum samples and associated ticks by traditional and molecular techniques
Parasite | Total examined samples | Babesia canis | Hepatozoon canis | Anaplasmataceae | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Method | Infected samples | % | Infected samples | % | Infected samples | % | Infected samples | % | |
Blood | |||||||||
 Blood smear | 208 | 17 | 8.17 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 11.1 | 40 | 19.23 |
 PCR | 124 | 8 | 6.45 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 19.35 | 32 | 25.81 |
Tick | |||||||||
 Hemolymph smear | 546 | 44 | 8.1 | 196 | 35.89 | 11 | 2.01 | 55 | 10.07 |
 PCR | 144 | 8 | 5.55 | 4 | 2.8 | 30 | 20.83 | 42 | 29.17 |