title: Anaplasma platys in bone marrow megakaryocytes of young dogs.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy.
authors.forename: A Sara
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: De Tommasi
authors.affiliation: School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel.
authors.forename: Gad
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Baneth
authors.affiliation: Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory, Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Edward B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Breitschwerdt
authors.affiliation: Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany.
authors.forename: Dorothee
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stanneck
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy Departamento de Imunologia, Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães (Fiocruz-PE), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
authors.forename: Filipe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dantas-Torres
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy.
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Otranto
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy donato.decaprariis@uniba.it.
authors.forename: Donato
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: de Caprariis
mesh_terms: D000709:Anaplasma / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000712:Anaplasmosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000382:microbiology*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008533:Megakaryocytes / Q000382:microbiology*