Outbreak of tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis in a cattery of Abyssinian cats in Italy

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tbed.13010" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tbed.13010</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13010" target="_blank" >10.1111/tbed.13010</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Outbreak of tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis in a cattery of Abyssinian cats in Italy

Original language description

Mycobacterium bovis is a re?emerging zoonosis; it was diagnosed in five Abyssinian cats in a breeding cattery in Italy. The infection entered the cattery with an imported kitten (cat A); it had a suspected bite wound on its leg that had been trea- ted at a veterinary clinic in Kiev, Ukraine, which is probably where it became infected with M. bovis. When the kitten arrived in Italy, there were four cats in the cattery; an adult female, her two kittens and a kitten imported from Russia. These were all healthy, and had no outdoor access. All five cats developed tuberculous interstitial pneumonia; in cat A this occurred 6 weeks after importation, the others were diagnosed 4?6 weeks later. Three cats were euthanised with deteriorating pneumonia while two cats remained clinically well on antibiotic therapy (mar- bofloxacin, doxycycline and azithromycin). The latter cases were euthanised after 5 weeks, as required by Italian law once M. bovis infection was suspected. Changes consistent with tuberculosis on gross post-mortem examination included mesenteric and mediastinal lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly and hepatomegaly, and the pres- ence of disseminated focal white lesions on the cut surface of the spleen, liver and lungs. Visible acid?fast bacteria (cats A, B and C) were confirmed as Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by PCR (cats A, B, C, D and E), refined to M. bovis (cats A, B and D), spoligotype SB0950 (cats A and D).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30502 - Other medical science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

ISSN

1865-1674

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

250-258

UT code for WoS article

000456344900030

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85055918621