| Autor: |
Luaces I; Gir diagnostics S.L., Madrid, Spain. ines@girdiagnostics.com, Aguirre E, García-Montijano M, Velarde J, Tesouro MA, Sánchez C, Galka M, Fernández P, Sainz A |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of wildlife diseases [J Wildl Dis] 2005 Oct; Vol. 41 (4), pp. 810-5. |
| DOI: |
10.7589/0090-3558-41.4.810 |
| Abstrakt: |
A wild injured Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) was taken from the Sierra Morena population. During the health check small intraerythrocytic piroplasms, morphologically indistinguishable from other feline piroplasms, were observed in Wright-Giemsa-stained blood films. Amplification by polymerase chain reaction of a portion of the 18S nuclear small subunit (NSS) rRNA gene and sequencing revealed similarity of the unknown organism with sequences obtained from Pallas's cat from Mongolia and from a domestic cat in Spain. In a retrospective (1993-2003) study of 50 Iberian lynx tissue samples, no amplifications of the 18S NSS rRNA gene of the organism were obtained. This is the first report of a naturally occurring erythroparasitemia in the Iberian lynx and the first documented case of naturally occurring piroplasm infection in a free-ranging felid from Europe. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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