Anaplasmosis, a tick-borne disease in dogs, caused by obligate intracellular pathogens, Anaplasma platys and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Anaplasmosis is characterized by a variety of clinical symptoms including pyrexia as well as non-symptomatic thrombocytopenia. Advances in molecular techniques have enabled physicians and diagnosticians to use polymerase chain reaction for identification of theses pathogens in dogs. | First molecular detection of anaplasma platys and coinfection with babesia gibsoni in dogs from Bengaluru, India