A Mint disease in the dog Perhaps underestimated and subdiagnosticate it is the RuckttSiosis. A little less known than the much more famous ehrlichiosis and Lyme or Borelliosis disease, here are two ricktsie that can affect our dogs: Restkettia RestkettSii and Restkettia coniori. However, there are several other subspecies and kind of rstkettsie that can infect our dogs.
Far from us wanting to make terrorism, it is simply an input to explain why veterinarians insist so much on the importance of regularly apply pesticides to dogs. It is not just to prevent the ticks of ticks stroller for the house (among other things, due to climate change, the period and the widespread range of ticks are increasing), but also to reduce the risk that dogs develop these diseases.
Mint disease in the dog: RestkettSiosis
In the dog the due to rickttsiosis It is often represented by:
These are other species of Restketthesia present in Europe and which can infect dogs (but also theman and other animals since the RickettSiosis is a zoonosis):
Symptoms of rstkettSiosis in dogs
As also happens with other minting diseases, even in canine rstkettSiosis i symptoms They are often non -specific:
Typically the symptoms tend to arise from May to August. (READ ALSO: I am a veterinary and I explain how to remove the ticks from the dog and the cat)
Among the main ones laboratory changes we have:
Diagnosis of Restkettia infection
In addition to the symptoms and an anamnesis of ticks infestation, here is that Ricklesiosis can be diagnosed through:
There differential diagnosis It is made with other mint diseases (although nothing prohibits that more ticks diseases are present at the same time. Indeed, more ticks diseases are often presented at the same time, sometimes also combined with leishmaniasis):
RickettSiosis therapy in the dog
There RickettSiosis therapy in the dog provides for the administration of Doxicicline For at least a month. Although the dog seems to improve a few days after the start of therapy, the cure must not be suspended too early.
Obviously, symptomatic and support therapy will also be implemented. Then watch out for the possible co-infestations between different mint diseases simultaneously, as well as the possible presence also of mixed infestations of mint diseases and leishmaniasis.
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