Rapid infectious disease test FASTest® ANAPLASMA

for caninesfor equinesfor antibodies

FASTest® ANAPLASMA is a rapid immunochromatographic test for the qualitative detection of antibodies against Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma platys in whole blood, plasma or serum of dog and horse. Anaplasmosis is a bacterial-borne infectious disease that can cause various clinical symptoms depending on vector or pathogen species. The agent Anaplasma phagocytophilum mainly occurs in the northern hemisphere causing granulocytotropic anaplasmosis. It plays an important epidemiologic role in dogs and horses. Other mammals as well as humans (zoonosis) can be also infected by a tick bite. In principle, tick territories (endemic area) are potential breeding grounds for dog and horse. In Europe, approximately 2–4,5% of the ticks (especially Ixodes spp.; Dermacentor spp.) are infected with A. phagocytophilum. In endemic tick territories, asymptomatic horses show seroprevalences from 26 to 33%. In the horse, morbidity ranges from 66 to 100%. In the dog, morbidity for single infection with A. phagocytophilum is low, but coinfection (e.g. Borrelia burgdorferi, E. canis) will increase the clinical course. Recent studies in Germany indicate a seroprevalence from 19 to 50%. With a transmission time of usually up to 25 hours after tick bite and an incubation time of 2 to 20 days, infections typically are subclinical or self-limiting. Antibody titres will increase 2–3 weeks post infection, remain for some months and decrease to normal levels after 7 months.