title: The role of uropathogens in feline lower urinary tract disease. Clinical implications.
abstract: Bacterial, fungal, and parasitic uropathogens have small but significant roles as causative agents in naturally occurring feline lower urinary tract disease. However, the exact cause of hematuria, dysuria, and/or urethral obstruction remains unknown in a large percentage of cats. Feline calicivirus, feline syncytia-forming virus, bovine herpesvirus-4, mycoplasmas, and ureaplasmas are potential uropathogens whose etiopathogenic roles in idiopathic feline lower urinary tract disease remain, as of yet, unresolved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine, East Lansing.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Kruger
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Osborne
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D002415:Cats; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary; D009181:Mycoses / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary; D016869:Ureaplasma Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000662:veterinary