| isolation in illinois of a foreign strain of ehrlichia canis, the causative agent of canine ehrlichiosis (tropical canine pancytopenia). | ehrlichiosis (tropical canine pancytopenia) was diagnosed in illinois in a 4 1/2-year-old mixed breed dog that had spent the previous 2 years in india. the dog had periodic epistaxis, anemia, leukopenia, hypoalbuminemia, and hypergammaglobulinemia. a titer of 1:160 for ehrlichia canis was detected by the indirect fluorescent antibody test (ifat). subinoculation of blood into a clinically normal dgo resulted in typical signs of canine ehrlichiosis, and e canis was identified in circulating mononu ... | 1975 | 1112743 |