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Survey of infectious and parasitic diseases in stray cats at the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal

A survey of infectious and parasitic diseases of stray cats was carried out using biological samples collected from animals captured during a catch-neuter-release programme in four counties of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. The main objective was to investigate the potential threat of stray cats for...

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Autores principales: Duarte, Ana, Castro, Isabel, Pereira da Fonseca, Isabel M., Almeida, Virgilio, Madeira de Carvalho, Luis M., Meireles, José, Fazendeiro, Maria I., Tavares, Luis, Vaz, Yolanda
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Publicado: ISFM and AAFP. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20466573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfms.2009.11.003
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author Duarte, Ana
Castro, Isabel
Pereira da Fonseca, Isabel M.
Almeida, Virgilio
Madeira de Carvalho, Luis M.
Meireles, José
Fazendeiro, Maria I.
Tavares, Luis
Vaz, Yolanda
author_facet Duarte, Ana
Castro, Isabel
Pereira da Fonseca, Isabel M.
Almeida, Virgilio
Madeira de Carvalho, Luis M.
Meireles, José
Fazendeiro, Maria I.
Tavares, Luis
Vaz, Yolanda
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description A survey of infectious and parasitic diseases of stray cats was carried out using biological samples collected from animals captured during a catch-neuter-release programme in four counties of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. The main objective was to investigate the potential threat of stray cats for animal and public health. Samples of blood, stool, hair and auricular swabs were collected from 231 cats in 27 colonies. Anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies were detected in 47/194 samples (24.2%); anti-Leishmania infantum antibodies in 1/180 cats (0.6%); intestinal parasites in 23/74 samples (Toxocara cati, Isospora felis, Ancylostoma tubaeforme, Dipylidium caninum, Uncinaria stenocephala, Toxascaris leonina) and Otodectes cynotis in 4/182 cats (2.2%); dermatophyte fungi were isolated in 40/136 samples (29.4%); feline immunodeficiency virus antibodies were detected in 23/226 samples (10.2%); feline leukaemia virus antigen in 14/198 samples (7.1%); and feline coronavirus RNA in 9/127 samples (7.1%). Our results revealed that zoonotic agents, namely dermatophyte fungi and Toxocara cati were present in stray cat colonies in the investigated counties. Overall the low frequency of major pathogens suggests a balanced relationship between host and agents.
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spelling pubmed-71281062020-04-08 Survey of infectious and parasitic diseases in stray cats at the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal Duarte, Ana Castro, Isabel Pereira da Fonseca, Isabel M. Almeida, Virgilio Madeira de Carvalho, Luis M. Meireles, José Fazendeiro, Maria I. Tavares, Luis Vaz, Yolanda J Feline Med Surg Article A survey of infectious and parasitic diseases of stray cats was carried out using biological samples collected from animals captured during a catch-neuter-release programme in four counties of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. The main objective was to investigate the potential threat of stray cats for animal and public health. Samples of blood, stool, hair and auricular swabs were collected from 231 cats in 27 colonies. Anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies were detected in 47/194 samples (24.2%); anti-Leishmania infantum antibodies in 1/180 cats (0.6%); intestinal parasites in 23/74 samples (Toxocara cati, Isospora felis, Ancylostoma tubaeforme, Dipylidium caninum, Uncinaria stenocephala, Toxascaris leonina) and Otodectes cynotis in 4/182 cats (2.2%); dermatophyte fungi were isolated in 40/136 samples (29.4%); feline immunodeficiency virus antibodies were detected in 23/226 samples (10.2%); feline leukaemia virus antigen in 14/198 samples (7.1%); and feline coronavirus RNA in 9/127 samples (7.1%). Our results revealed that zoonotic agents, namely dermatophyte fungi and Toxocara cati were present in stray cat colonies in the investigated counties. Overall the low frequency of major pathogens suggests a balanced relationship between host and agents. ISFM and AAFP. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2010-06 2010-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7128106/ /pubmed/20466573 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfms.2009.11.003 Text en Copyright © 2009 ISFM and AAFP. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Fazendeiro, Maria I.
Tavares, Luis
Vaz, Yolanda
Survey of infectious and parasitic diseases in stray cats at the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfms.2009.11.003
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