Feline leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil.
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.
de Souza
Alda Izabel
AI
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
Barros
Evânia Marcia Silva
EM
Ishikawa
Edna
E
Ilha
Iêda Maria Novaes
IM
Marin
Glaucia Rosely Barbosa
GR
Nunes
Vânia Lúcia Brandão
VL
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
D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal