First report of feline intestinal trichomoniasis caused by Tritrichomonas foetus in Korea.
Feline intestinal tritrichomoniasis by Tritrichomonas foetus was first recognized in USA in 1999 and has so far been reported from UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Australia, but not from the Far East Asian countries. In November 2008, 2 female and male littermate Siamese cats, 6-month old, raised in a household in Korea were referred from a local veterinary clinic with a history of chronic persistent diarrhea. A direct smear examination of fecal specimens revealed numerous trichomonad trophozoites which were isolated by the fecal culture in InPouch TF-Feline medium. A PCR testing of the isolate based on the amplification of a conserved portion of the T. foetus internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions (ITS1 and ITS2) and the 5.8S rRNA gene, and the molecular sequencing of the PCR amplicons confirmed infection with T. foetus. This is the first clinical case of feline intestinal trichomoniasis caused by T. foetus in Korea.
Lim
Sun
S
Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology, Biotherapy Human Resources Center (BK 21), College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Republic of Korea.
Park
Sang-Ik
SI
Ahn
Kyu-Sung
KS
Oh
Dae-Sung
DS
Ryu
Jae-Sook
JS
Shin
Sung-Shik
SS
D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D002415:Cats; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011529:Protozoan Infections, Animal / Q000469:parasitology*; D056910:Republic of Korea; D016835:Tritrichomonas foetus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*