FATORES DE RISCO E SINTOMATOLOGIA CLÍNICA ASSOCIADOS À INFECÇÃO PELO FELV: ESTUDO CASO-CONTROLE EM UM HOSPITAL ESCOLA VETERINÁRIO
| Autor: | Gustavo Carvalho Cobucci, Evandro Silva Favarato, Paula Dias Bevilacqua, Bruno Santiago |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Ciência Animal Brasileira, Vol 20, Pp 1-10 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1518-2797 1809-6891 |
| Popis: | The objective of this study was to identify risk factors and clinical features of the feline leukemia virus (FeLV) infection in domestic cats (Felis catus) seen at a Veterinary Teaching Hospital. A case-control study was performed to determine the risk factors and a descriptive study was done to define the clinical symptoms of the sick animals. From January 2013 to January 2014, 175 medical records of cats seen at the hospital were evaluated. FeLV was found in 34 of them (19.4%). It was noticed an association between age and the FeLV infection (p=0,009); higher incidence of the infection occurring in animals between one and four years old. Hematopoietic neoplasias (p=0,000022), anemia (p |
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