B. Davoust et al., RESULTS OF A 10 YEARS EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVE Y OF EHRLICHIOSIS IN CORSICAN MILITARY KENNELS, Recueil de medecine veterinaire, 170(8-9), 1994, pp. 531-537
From 1981 to 1989 Ehrlichiosis raged in two Corsican military dog kenn
els causing the death of 18 dogs. Seroprevalence surveys made it possi
ble to see how the infection evolved and to estimate the impact of dox
ycycline treatment on seropositive dogs. The annual incidence rate dro
pped from 40 per cent to 10 per cent in risk populations.