ALB and tick-borne infectious disease: Two of the 6 dogs with high copy numbers had clinical signs of a tick-borne disease and both these dogs, and three others with high copy numbers, had laboratory abnormalities (RCC = 1.7×1012/L, Alb = 1.8 g/dL and Glob = 8.1 g/dL; RCC = 3.0×1012/L and Plt = 3,000×109/L; Plt = 44,000×109/L; Plt = 14,000×109/L; Glob = 5.7 g/dL).