| Literature DB >> 15725531 |
Alda Izabel de Souza1, Evânia Marcia Silva Barros, Edna Ishikawa, Iêda Maria Novaes Ilha, Glaucia Rosely Barbosa Marin, Vânia Lúcia Brandão Nunes.
Abstract
A case of leishmaniasis in a domestic cat (Felis domesticus) is described. The animal showed a single, nodular lesion on the nose and many nodules of different size on the ears and digital regions of all the paws. Diagnosis was made by microscopic detection of amastigotes in Giemsa-stained smears from the lesions. By monoclonal antibodies the aetiological agent was identified as Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis, one of the seven species implicated in human leishmaniasis in Brazil. The clinical signs in feline leishmaniasis are unspecific and similar to those observed in other diseases such as cryptococcosis and in sporotrichosis, commonly found in cats. Leishmaniasis should therefore, be added to the differential diagnosis by feline veterinary practitioners and adequate investigations should carried out for dermal leishmaniasis in the area where the feline infection is detected.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15725531 DOI： 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.11.020
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vet Parasitol ISSN： 0304-4017 Impact factor: 2.738