“…Furthermore, domestic dogs play an important epidemiological role in the transmission of some BVBPs to humans ( Chomel et al, 2006 ; Valiakos, 2016 ; Bowser and Anderson, 2018 ; Nguyen et al, 2021 ). For example, dogs are a natural mammalian reservoir host for zoonotic BVBPs such as Rickettsia felis ( Ng-Nguyen et al, 2020 ), the causative agent of flea-borne spotted fever, transmitted by Ctenocephalides felis and Rickettsia conorii , or Mediterranean spotted fever, transmitted by Rhipicephalus sanguineus ( s.l. )…”