Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Dispatch
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
, Eleanor H. Lacombe, Susan P. Elias, Bruce K. Cahill, Charles B. Lubelczyk, and Robert P. Smith
Table 1
Canine seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Lyme diseases vaccination status, Maine, USA, 2007
| County |
No. dogs tested |
B. burgdorferi* |
A. phagocytophilum* |
Lyme disease vaccination status |
|||||
| No.
negative |
No. (%) positive |
No.
negative |
No. (%) positive |
No.
reporting |
No. (%) vaccinated |
||||
| Aroostook | 59 | 56 | 3 (5.1) | 59 | 0 | 59 | 9 (15.3) | ||
| Piscataquis | 46 | 44 | 2 (4.3) | 43 | 3 (6.5) | 44 | 23 (52.3) | ||
| Somerset | 57 | 55 | 2 (3.5) | 54 | 3 (5.3) | 55 | 33 (60.0) | ||
| Penobscot | 77 | 73 | 4 (5.2) | 73 | 4 (5.2) | 75 | 30 (40.0) | ||
| Franklin | 78 | 73 | 5 (6.4) | 78 | 0 | 78 | 38 (48.7) | ||
| Washington | 38 | 35 | 3 (7.9) | 37 | 1 (2.6) | 37 | 6 (16.2) | ||
| Hancock | 54 | 46 | 8 (14.8) | 53 | 1 (1.9) | 54 | 24 (44.4) | ||
| Oxford | 76 | 66 | 10 (13.2) | 75 | 1 (1.3) | 76 | 41 (53.9) | ||
| Waldo | 62 | 57 | 5 (8.1) | 60 | 2 (3.2) | 62 | 38 (61.3) | ||
| Kennebec | 120 | 106 | 14 (11.7) | 114 | 6 (5.0) | 119 | 82 (68.9) | ||
| Knox | 87 | 67 | 20 (23.0) | 83 | 4 (4.6) | 81 | 44 (54.3) | ||
| Lincoln | 91 | 75 | 16 (17.6) | 85 | 6 (6.6) | 85 | 63 (74.1) | ||
| Androscoggin | 62 | 53 | 9 (14.5) | 60 | 2 (3.2) | 62 | 27 (43.5) | ||
| Sagadahoc | 24 | 22 | 2 (8.3) | 23 | 1 (4.2) | 24 | 21 (87.5) | ||
| Cumberland | 91 | 78 | 13 (14.3) | 72 | 19 (20.9) | 88 | 62 (70.5) | ||
| York |
65 |
42 |
22 (34.4) |
41 |
24 (36.9) |
59 |
34 (57.6) |
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| Total | 1,087 | 948 | 138 (12.7) | 1,010 | 77 (7.1) | 1,058 | 575 (54.3) | ||
*Tested by using SNAP 4Dx test kit (IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook, ME, USA).
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