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Anaplasma platys in Bone Marrow Megakaryocytes of Young Dogs |
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| Authors: | A. Sara De Tommasi Gad Baneth Edward B. Breitschwerdt Dorothee Stanneck Filipe Dantas-Torres Domenico Otranto Donato de Caprariis |
| Abstract: | Anaplasma platys is an obligate intracellular rickettsial pathogen that infects platelets of dogs, forming basophilic intracellular morulae. In the present report, cellular inclusions were documented in bone marrow thrombocyte precursors of two young naturally infected dogs, indicating that A. platys can infect megakaryocytes and promegakaryocytes. |
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