title: Feline leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil.
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.
authors.affiliation: Curso de Medicina Veterinária, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Agrárias e da Saúde (CCBAS),Universidade para o Desenvolvimento do Estado e da Região do Pantanal (UNIDERP), Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. alda@nin.ufms.br
authors.forename: Alda Izabel
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.forename: Evânia Marcia Silva
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Barros
authors.forename: Edna
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: Iêda Maria Novaes
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Ilha
authors.forename: Glaucia Rosely Barbosa
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Marin
authors.forename: Vânia Lúcia Brandão
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Nunes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D001938:Brazil; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D002415:Cats; D004423:Ear / Q000469:parasitology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D019084:Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect / Q000662:veterinary; D005528:Foot / Q000469:parasitology; D007891:Leishmania / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016773:Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009666:Nose / Q000469:parasitology
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal