“…The acute stage lasts two to four weeks and has non-specific clinical signs that may include apathy, anorexia, vomiting, fever, ocular and nasal discharge, weight loss, ocular lesions, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and dyspnea (MOREIRA et al, 2003(MOREIRA et al, , 2005CASTRO et al, 2004;AGUIAR et al, 2007b;ORIÁ et al, 2008;BORIN et al, 2009). Hematological findings in this phase may include normocytic normochromic anemia (MOREIRA et al, 2003(MOREIRA et al, , 2005CASTRO et al, 2004;BORIN et al, 2009) CASTRO et al, 2004;BORIN et al, 2009;XAVIER et al, 2009). Cardiomyocyte injury has been identifi ed in Brazilian dogs naturally infected with E. canis.…”