Concurrent Aelurostrongylus abstrusus infection and salmonellosis in a kitten
| Autor: | R. G. Nicoll, Vanessa R. Barrs, G. R. Swinney, Patricia Martin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Salmonella typhimurium Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Salmonella Gastrointestinal Diseases Bronchi medicine.disease_cause Cat Diseases Kitten biology.animal medicine Enrofloxacin Bronchopneumonia Animals Strongylida Infections Salmonella Infections Animal Aelurostrongylus abstrusus General Veterinary biology Antinematodal Agents General Medicine Fenbendazole biology.organism_classification Thoracostomy respiratory tract diseases Radiography Metastrongyloidea Vomiting Cats medicine.symptom Lungworm medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Australian veterinary journal. 77(4) |
| ISSN: | 0005-0423 |
| Popis: | A 14-week-old kitten had a history of vomiting, diarrhoea and pyrexia, all of which resolved without treatment. Three weeks later the kitten developed a violent non-productive dry cough. Thoracic radiographs revealed pneumothorax and nodular alveolar disease. Aelurostrongylus abstrusus larvae and intracellular Gram-negative bacilli were seen in bronchial wash fluid and pleural exudate, and Salmonella Typhimurium was cultured from both fluids but not from faeces. Therapy included unilateral closed-tube thoracostomy, enrofloxacin and fenbendazole. Historical signs were compatible with gastrointestinal salmonellosis and secondary broncho-pneumonia. Seeding of the lungs with salmonellae may have occurred as a result of migration of A abstrusus from a gastro-intestinal tract residually infected or colonised by S Typhimurium. Alternatively, the development of lungworm infection in the cat may have activated quiescent S Typhimurium pulmonary granulomata from bacteraemia secondary to gastro-intestinal salmonellosis. Two years after diagnosis the cat was reportedly in good health. |
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