Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Multitarget Test for Emerging Lyme Disease and Anaplasmosis in a Serosurvey of Dogs, Maine, USA

Peter W. Rand

, Eleanor H. Lacombe, Susan P. Elias, Bruce K. Cahill, Charles B. Lubelczyk, and Robert P. Smith

Author affiliations: Author affiliation: Maine Medical Center Research Institute, South Portland, Maine, USA

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A) Canine seroprevalence for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and, in dogs never vaccinated against Lyme disease, for Borrelia burgdorferi in Maine counties arranged north to south, 2007. B) Maine counties, with the 10 tick-abundant counties used in the analyses shaded in gray. Counties: 1, Aroostook; 2, Piscataquis; 3, Somerset; 4, Penobscot; 5, Franklin; 6, Washington; 7, Hancock; 8, Oxford; 9, Waldo; 10, Kennebec; 11, Knox; 12, Lincoln; 13, Androscoggin; 14, Sagadahoc; 15, Cumberland; 16, York.

Figure 2. A) Canine seroprevalence for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and, in dogs never vaccinated against Lyme disease, for Borrelia burgdorferi in Maine counties arranged north to south, 2007. B) Maine counties, with the 10 tick-abundant counties used in the analyses shaded in gray. Counties: 1, Aroostook; 2, Piscataquis; 3, Somerset; 4, Penobscot; 5, Franklin; 6, Washington; 7, Hancock; 8, Oxford; 9, Waldo; 10, Kennebec; 11, Knox; 12, Lincoln; 13, Androscoggin; 14, Sagadahoc; 15, Cumberland; 16, York.

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