![]() ![]() canis positive domestic dog and tick ( Rhipicephalus linnaei) samples from the north of Western Australia, the far north of South Australia and the Northern Territory, covering thousands of square kilometres. To gain insight into the genetic relationships of the Australian strain and its potential origin, we undertook a genomic analysis of E. canis throughout much of northern Australia. Subsequent surveillance activities found unexpectedly large scale spread of E. canis was detected in several dogs from Kununurra, Western Australia. For many decades Australia was thought to be free of the pathogen, but this abruptly changed in May 2020 when E. The bacterium infects monocytes and is the aetiological agent of canine monocytic ehrlichiosis. Ehrlichia canis ( Rickettsiales Anaplasmataceae) is one of the most prevalent tick-borne pathogens of dogs globally.
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