Prevalence of serum AB titers against core vaccine antigens in Italian cats

Hepatozoonosis is a vector-borne infection caused by apicomplexan protozoa that have a vertebrate host, such as the dog or cat, and an arthropod blood-sucking vector, such as a tick. Although most tick-borne pathogens are transmitted with the vector’s saliva through its salivary glands, Hepatozoon species are different because they infect their vertebrate hosts when they swallow and consume their arthropod vectors containing mature parasite oocysts with infective sporozoites in them.

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