Research Communications of the 27(th) ECVIM-CA Congress: Intercontinental, Saint Julian's, Malta, 14th to 16th September 2017

Disclosures: Disclosures to report. Dr. Christian Leutenegger is the Head of Molecular Diagnostics at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. Dr. Hans-J€ org Balzer and Dr. Nikola Pantchev are employed at IDEXX Laboratories, Ludwigsburg. This laboratory offers the FCoV and FIP virus real-time RT-PCR on a commercial basis and performed the testing in this study. IDEXX played no role in the study design, in the collection and interpretation of data, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. There is no commercial conflict of interest as the information generated here is solely for scientific dissemination. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of selected tick-borne pathogens in ticks collected from cats in the UK: pathogens evaluated were Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Bartonella spp. including Bartonella henselae, Hepatozoon spp., Babesia spp., Borrelia spp. including Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, and hemoplasma species including Mycoplasma haemofelis (Mhf), 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum' (CMhm) and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis' (CMt).