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An adult domestic shorthair cat had severe chemosis due to purulent and necrotizing blepharitis and conjunctivitis. Purulent rhinitis, necrotizing glossitis, and dermatitis were also diagnosed. The cat was positive for feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia virus. Histologically, intranuclear Cowdry type A inclusions were found within numerous epithelial cells adjacent to the lesions in skin, conjunctiva, and tongue. Electron microscopic examination revealed herpesviral particles within the lesions. Paraffin-embedded skin and tongue tissues were processed in a polymerase chain reaction, using primers to amplify a 306-bp region of the thymidine kinase gene of feline herpesvirus type 1, resulting in a distinct amplification product of the predicted size. The distribution of feline herpesvirus was demonstrated by immunohistochemistry and nonradioactive in situ hybridization. Positive immunostaining was found in nuclei and cytoplasm of numerous epithelial cells within and next to the lesions, whereas in situ hybridization, performed with a digoxigenin-labeled double-stranded DNA probe, revealed hybridization signal only in nuclei of intact epithelial cells. Neither immunohistochemistry nor in situ hybridization showed feline herpesvirus type 1 in tissues of lungs, liver, spleen, intestine, or brain.  相似文献   

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Thirteen of 40 female cats were found to be chronically infected with feline syncytia-forming virus (FeSFV). Attempts to isolate the virus from these cats by conventional methods were not successful. However, virus was isolated from oropharyngeal swab samples and buffy coat cells. A new method was used involving inoculation of actively dividing Crandell feline kidney cell cultures. Cultures were trypsinized 3 days after inoculation and, as a result, cytopathic effect was amplified and ability to detect the virus was enhanced. The FeSFV was detected in 93% (92/88) of the oropharyngeal swab samples and 100% (14/14) of the buffy coat cell specimens. Feline sera were tested by immunodiffusion for precipitating antibody against FeSFV antigen. There was 100% correlation between viral infection and the presence of precipitating antibody. Virus and antibody persisted in infected cats for the duration of this study (8 months for 5 of the infected cats). Urolithiasis was observed in 15 of 28 male cats. Although a direct relationship between FeSFV infection and urolithiasis was not established, most of these male cats (20 of 21) had antibody to FeSFV.  相似文献   

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Feline chronic progressive polyarthritis   总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5  
Twenty cats with a chronic progressive polyarthritis were studied. The disorder occurred exclusively in male cats, and all but six of the cats were between 1.5 and 5.0 years of age. There were two forms of the disease as determined by radiographic changes: joint instability and deformity, and clinical course. The most prevalent form of the disease was characterized by osteopenia and periosteal new bone formation surrounding affected joints. Marginal periarticular erosions and collapse of the joint spaces with fibrous ankylosis occurred with time, but joint instability and deformities were not seen. The second form of the disease was characterized by severe subchondral marginal erosions, joint instability, and deformities. The periosteal proliferative form resembled Reiter's arthritis of man, and the deforming type resembled human rheumatoid arthritis. The disease began as tenosynovitis and synovitis, with subsequent changes in the articular cartilage and periosteal bone. Histopathologic changes in these cats were similar to those occurring in both chronic Reiter's and rheumatoid arthritis of man. Chronic progressive polyarthritis of cats was not caused by identifiable bacteria or mycoplasma, but was etiologically linked to feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and feline syncytia-forming virus (FeSFV) infections. The FeSFV was isolated from the blood or was detected by a serologic test in all of the cats with the disease, whereas FeLV was isolated or identified by immunofluorescence technique in 60% of the cats. The arthritis could not be reproduced by inoculation of cell-free cynovial tissue from diseased cats or with tissue culture fluid containing FeSFV and FeLV isolates. It was postulated that arthritis was an uncommon manifestation of FeSFV infection that occurred in predisposed male cats. Feline leukemia virus may not have been directly involved in the disease, but may have acted in some way to potentiate the pathogenic effects of FeSFV.  相似文献   

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Two hundred and seventy-seven sick pet cats living in Italy were tested for antibodies to feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and for feline leukemia virus (FeLV) antigen. Overall, 24% of the cats resulted positive for anti-FIV antibody and 18% for FeLV antigen. FIV was isolated from the peripheral mononuclear blood cells of ten out of 15 seropositive cats examined and from one out of eight saliva samples. No FIV isolations were obtained from six serum samples cultured. Feline syncytium forming virus (FeSFV) could be isolated from blood and/or saliva in ten out of 11 FIV seropositive cats examined, in six out of nine FeLV antigen positive cats, in two cats found positive for both infection markers, and in three out of 11 cats negative for both markers. Thus, the probability of isolating FeSFV was enhanced by infection with other exogenous retroviruses.  相似文献   

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A cat was presented with severe progressive anemia despite marked erythroblastosis. The cat was negative for feline leukemia virus antigen and feline immunodeficiency virus antibody. Bone marrow cytology revealed an excess of erythroid cells with a predominance of prorubricytes and basophilic rubricytes. No response to immunosuppressive therapy was obtained, and a tentative diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome was made. The cat showed a partial response to low-dose cytarabine (20 mg/m(2) subcutaneously q24) but died 51 days after the 1st admission. Histopathological examination revealed fibrosis in the bone marrow and marked infiltration of erythroid cells into other organs.  相似文献   

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A case of multicentric fibrosarcoma in a ten month old domestic short-haired cat is presented and discussed. Tumor tissue was found to involve the right distal forepaw, right shoulder area and a popliteal lymph node. This anaplastic neoplasm was concentrated primarily in subcutaneous tissues but also extended to muscle, bone and lung. The cat was found to be positive for feline leukemia virus by the ELISA test. Based on these findings, it is likely that the lesions in this case result from an interaction between the feline leukemia virus and feline sarcoma virus.  相似文献   

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Immune-mediated disorders in cats share many clinical and pathologic similarities with their counterparts in other species. Cats, however, are unique among domestic animals owing to the involvement of feline leukemia virus. In addition, a number of other infectious organisms can produce immune-mediated sequelae--that is, FIP virus, FeSFV, and H. felis. Therefore, the diagnostic and therapeutic aims in the management of feline immune-mediated disorders must take into account the probability of a primary or underlying disease process.  相似文献   

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Disseminated megakaryocytic neoplasia was diagnosed in a 3-year-old cat. Hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, and abnormal platelets in the peripheral blood characterized the condition. Neoplastic megakaryocytes were present in numerous organs. No evidence of feline leukemia virus was found.  相似文献   

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Twenty feline vaccine-associated sarcomas were examined by transmission electron microscopy. Tumors contained pleomorphic spindle cells, histiocytoid cells, and giant cells. Most tumors contained myofibroblasts, which had morphologic features similar to those of fibroblasts. These cells were further distinguished by subplasmalemmal dense plaques and thin cytoplasmic actin myofilaments organized as elongated bundles concentrated at irregular intervals forming characteristic dense bodies. Intracellular crystalline particulate material was found in 5 of the 20 tumors. Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy was used to identify the crystalline material within one tumor as aluminum-based. One tumor from a feline leukemia virus-infected cat contained budding and immature retroviral particles.  相似文献   

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Feline leukemia is a useful model for malignant hematopoïetic tumor studies. It is caused by a type C, RNA virus, the Feline Leukemia virus (FeLV), transmitted horizontally, and widespread in the cat population.The presence of DNA sequences and virus specific RNA expression in cell cultures of SPF cats and cat embryos, indicates a vertical transmission may occur.These FeLV-related sequences in virus negative lymphosarcoma, almost from older cats, indicate that in certain FeLV related diseases the viral replication may not occur. An endogenous ecotropic feline virus may also explain this finding. The absence of FeLV gene expression in some lymphomatous cats—many older—suggest that, in these cats, spontaneous lymphoma may not be caused by FeLV.The widespread occurrence of feline xenotropic endogenous virus RD-114 gene, in feline lymphoma, suggest that expression of certain functions of this virus may be involved etiologically in the development of lymphoid tumors in the cat.Nevertheless, immunisation against FeLV would provide a good prevention against the main part of the feline lymphosarcomas and other FeLV-related diseases. Inactivated FeLV does not provide a good immunisation in young cats. By contrast a good protection against tumoral development is obtained by vaccination using the Feline oncogenic virus cell membrane antigen (FOCMA).  相似文献   

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A case of feline cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis due to Cladophyalophora bantiana is described. The cat was presented with breathing difficulty and a swollen, ulcerated nodule on the dorsal nose and left nostril. Histological examination of the nodule revealed a cystic granulomatous dermatitis characterised by neutrophils, macrophages and giant cells. Pigmented, yeast-like fungus cells and hyphal elements were easily identified in haematoxylin-eosin stained tissue sections. Cladophyalophora bantiana was isolated from a tissue specimen. This organism, primarily known to cause cerebral infection in humans and cats, only rarely causes cutaneous infection. Despite anti-fungal chemotherapy two relapses occurred. The cat was feline immunodeficiency virus- and feline leukemia virus-negative and even if the owner was unaware of trauma, the hypothesis of wound contamination is the most likely.  相似文献   

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Feline leukemia (leukosis, lymphosarcomatosis) is now known to be caused by a virus (Jarrett et al. 1964). The feline leukemia virus antigen has been demonstrated in salivary glands of leukemic cats (Hardy et al. 1969, 1970) and according to Gardner (1971) the C-type virus particles will replicate in the salivary glands of leukotic cats.  相似文献   

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A cat with an upper respiratory infection was presented for examination. Close examination of the face revealed a firm, haired rounded swelling on the bridge of the nose. Serum protein electrophoresis demonstrated a mild hypergammaglobulinaemia. The cat tested negative for feline immunodeficiency virus. Skin biopsy of the nasal lesion revealed nodular angiocentric infiltrates in the deep dermis and subcutis. The mixed infiltrate had numerous plasma cells. Presence of calicivirus antigen could not be demonstrated within the skin lesion by immunohistochemical staining. The cat was treated for upper respiratory infection and 1 month later the nasal lesion had resolved. A firm and rounded swelling over the bridge of the nose may be a feline cutaneous plasmacytic reaction pattern.  相似文献   

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A feline leukemia virus-negative skin lymphoma was characterized as a T-lymphocyte neoplasm, using the guinea pig erythrocyte rosetting technique. The lymphoma cells responded well to phytohemagglutinin compared with normal feline lymphocytes which did not respond. Serum factor(s) was found in serum of a cat with lymphoma that was highly stimulating to autologous tumor cells, but not to normal cat lymphocytes.  相似文献   

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A cutaneous mass in the neck was excised in a 13-year-old cat. Histopathological examination of the resected tissue revealed a multicentric squamous cell carcinoma in situ resembling Bowen's disease of man. The tumor showed a multifocal transformation to an infiltrative squamous cell carcinoma. Histological and immunohistological findings excluded actinic keratosis and feline viral plaques and allowed a classification as an irregular non-hyperkeratotic type of multicentric squamous cell carcinoma in situ. As a possible causative agent feline papillomavirus type 2 was detected using nested PCR in formalin-fixed material.  相似文献   

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An 8-month old intact male Turkish Angora cat was referred to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH), Seoul National University, for an evaluation of anorexia and severe dyspnea. The thoracic radiographs revealed significant pleural effusion. A cytology evaluation of the pleural fluid strongly suggested a lymphoma containing variable sized lymphocytes with frequent mitotic figures and prominent nucleoli. The feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus tests were negative. The cat was euthanized at his owner''s request and a necropsy was performed. A mass was detected on the mediastinum and lung lobes. A histopathology evaluation confirmed the mass to be a lymphoma. Immunohistochemistry revealed the mass to be CD3 positive. In conclusion, the cat was diagnosed as a T-cell mediastinal lymphoma.  相似文献   

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A 4-year-old, neutered male Domestic Shorthair cat with a history of depression, anorexia, and weight loss was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). The cat tested positive by both the feline immunodeficiency virus antibody test and feline leukemia virus enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test. Results of cytochemical stains on peripheral blood and bone marrow specimens indicated acute myeloid leukemia with unusual basophilic differentiation (AML, M-2B).  相似文献   

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To determine the presence of viral pathogens in natural areas a survey was conducted on an opportunistic sample of fifty eight wild (Felis silvestris silvestris) and feral cats (F. s. catus). The biological materials included serum, lung tissue extract and stool. Feline leukemia virus p27 antigen was detected in 13/50 serum/lung tissue extract samples (26%), canine distemper virus antibodies were detected in 2/26 serum/lung tissue extract samples (7.7%), feline coronavirus RNA was present in 6/29 stool samples (20.7%) and feline parvovirus DNA in 2/29 stool samples (6.9%). Canine distemper virus RNA was not detected. Feline immunodeficiency virus and feline coronavirus antibodies were not detected. Evidence of exposure to feline leukemia virus, canine distemper virus, feline coronavirus and feline parvovirus was found in wild and feral cats raising the importance of performing a comprehensive survey to correctly evaluate the potential threat of infectious diseases to endangered species, namely to the wildcat and to the Iberian lynx, which is meant to be reintroduced after 2012 in Portugal.  相似文献   

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