The incidence of canine babesiosis amongst sick dogs presented to the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital.

The number of sick dogs with and without canine babesiosis, a potentially fatal tick-borne disease, presented to the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital situated north of Pretoria is reported from counts extracted from the records of the Outpatients clinic for the 6 years 1988 to 1993. The average percentage of sick dogs diagnosed as positive for canine babesiosis is 11.69%, of which 31.4% were admitted to the small animal medicine clinic for more intensive treatment. The correlation between the number of monthly babesiosis cases and meteorological data is poor.