Figure 4.
Specification of B. canis blood stages. (A) Representative Giemsa-stained blood smears from an experimentally infected dog with severe shock-like clinical signs showing typical pleiomorphic morphological appearance of B. canis parasites (parasitemia of 1.5% infected erythrocytes). (B) Transcriptome analysis of B. canis homologs of validated Plasmodium spp. stage-specific genes in a blood sample collected from an experimentally infected splenectomised dog with clinical signs consistent with acute canine babesiosis.