title: The incidence of canine babesiosis amongst sick dogs presented to the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital.
abstract: The number of sick dogs with and without canine babesiosis, a potentially fatal tick-borne disease, presented to the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital situated north of Pretoria is reported from counts extracted from the records of the Outpatients clinic for the 6 years 1988 to 1993. The average percentage of sick dogs diagnosed as positive for canine babesiosis is 11.69%, of which 31.4% were admitted to the small animal medicine clinic for more intensive treatment. The correlation between the number of monthly babesiosis cases and meteorological data is poor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Shakespeare
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001404:Babesiosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004285:Dogs; D006762:Hospitals, Animal; D015994:Incidence; D008685:Meteorological Concepts; D012621:Seasons; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology