Remo G. Lobetti

TL;DR: It is concluded that serial blood lactate measurements are useful in predicting survival in dogs with severe and complicated canine babesiosis.

TL;DR: It was concluded that the analysis of plasma cTnI is a feasible and sensitive test and is superior tocTnT in diagnosing cardiac involvement in dogs with babesiosis and no correlation between ECG abnormalities and histological changes or biochemical evidence of myocardial damage as reflected by cTNI concentrations was shown.

TL;DR: A retrospective survey of 662 hospitalized cases revealed that the haematology, clinical biochemistry and patient profile (signalment) of the severely anaemic dogs were distinct from those of the non-anaemic, indicating that the babesiosis in these two groups of dogs should be viewed as two different disease in terms of the postulated, underlying, 'pathomechanisms'.

TL;DR: Nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequences for feline and canine hemoplasma isolates from Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia showed almost 100% identity to those previously reported for United States isolates, and phylogenetic analysis showed that the hemoplasmas are most closely related to the members of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae group.

TL;DR: Preclinical HCM/HOCM is a global health problem of cats that carries substantial risk for CHF, ATE, and cardiovascular death, and this finding underscores the need to identify therapies and monitoring strategies that decrease morbidity and mortality.