Cevidanes, Aitor
Di Cataldo, Sophia
Muñoz-San Martín, Catalina
Latrofa, Maria Stefania
Hernández, Claudia
Cattan, Pedro E.
Otranto, Domenico
Millán, Javier
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (1161593)
Universidad de Zaragoza
Article History
Received: 9 July 2022
Accepted: 24 September 2022
First Online: 3 November 2022
Ethics declarations
:
: This study was approved by the authorities in bioethics from Universidad Andres Bello under authorization 08/2016.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: Dog owners signed an informed consent form before samples were taken.
: Consent for publication was obtained from dog owners.
: Some of the dogs included in this manuscript were included in previous articles that are cited in Material and Methods. Nevertheless, regarding the other articles: (1) each one aimed to describe the distribution of a single pathogen in different Chilean climates; (2) included many other dogs (up to 1000) and foxes (up to 300) from all over Chile; (3) dogs were not analyzed for all the pathogens (n = 9) and with all the protocols included in this manuscript (for example, in this manuscript we used a specific protocol to detect coinfection by different hemoplasma species); and (4) data on hematology and serum chemistry of the dogs was not included in any of these articles. In opposition, in this manuscript, we analyzed dogs from the same area for co-infection with nine different pathogens and included variations in hematology and serum chemistry associated with them. All the figures are new and have not been published previously.