Prevalence of Canine Anaplasmosis

Anaplasma platys and Anaplasma phagocytophilum are the intracellular rickettsial organisms responsible for canine anaplasmosis. Ehrlichia platys is reclassified as Anaplasma platys based on the phylogenetic study conducted by Dumler et al., 2001 with 16S rRNA gene of E. platys. A. platys is a gram negative obligatory intracellular bacterium which is the causative agent of infectious canine cyclic thrombocytopenia (ICCT) in dogs (da Silva, 2016). A. platys can also be seen in bone marrow cells, like promegakaryocytes and megakaryocytes (De Tommasi et al., 2014). A. platys can also be found in cows (Dahmani et al., 2015), humans (Breitschwerdt et al., 2014) and cats (Correa et al., 2011). The global scenario and prevalence of A. platys in India is given in Table 1 and Table 2.