Clinical, Hematologic, and Molecular Findings in Naturally Occurring Babesia canis vogeli in Egyptian Dogs

Table 3

Hematologic findings of 13 dogs with babesiosis from small animal internal medicine teaching hospital, faculty of veterinary medicine, Cairo University.

Parameter	Patient data	Control data^1	Reference range^2
RBCs (×10^6/𝜇L)	4.05±0.8^a	6.41±1.09^b	5.5–8.5
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	11.375±0.61^a	14.74±2.07^b	12.0–18.0
PCV (%)	32.33±7.00^a	43.14±6.44^b	37–55
MCV (fL)	74.67±13.2	68.14±6.86	66–77
MCH (pg)	25.25±5.46	23.01±2.92	21.0–26.2
MCHC (%)	32.17±3.72	33.56±1.77	32.0–36.3
WBCs (×10^3/𝜇L)	9.650±1.4^a	12.850±1.61^b	6,000–17,000
Neutrophil (×10^3/𝜇L)	3.787±0.92^a	6.728±0.89^b	3,000–11,500
Lymphocyte (×10^3/𝜇L)	4.583±1.33	4.928±0.37	1,000–4,800
Monocyte (×10^3/𝜇L)	1.062±0.196^a	0.771±0.13^b	0.1–1.4
Platelets (×10^3/𝜇L)	93.667±15.0^a	268.93±14.2^b	200,000–500,000

(ab)Different letters on the same line indicate statistically different means (𝑃<0.05); confidence interval: 95%.
1Control data was done from apparently healthy dogs tested negative on two PCR cycles with 1-month period; ²Rizzi et al. [29].