Systemic Mycobacterium kansasii Infection in Two Related Cats

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698836/pdf/pathogens-09-00959.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698836/pdf/pathogens-09-00959.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9110959" target="_blank" >10.3390/pathogens9110959</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Systemic Mycobacterium kansasii Infection in Two Related Cats

Original language description

Mycobacterial infections are a major concern in veterinary medicine because of the difficulty achieving an etiological diagnosis, the challenges and concerns of treatment, and the potential zoonotic risk. Mycobacterium kansasii, a slow-growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria, causes disease in both humans and animals. While infections have been well described in humans, where it may be misdiagnosed as tuberculosis, there are fewer reports in animals. Only four cases have been reported in the domestic cat. This case report describes systemic M. kansasii infection in two sibling indoor-only cats that presented two and half years apart with cutaneous disease that was found to be associated with osteolytic and pulmonary pathology. Infection with M. kansasii was confirmed in both cats by polymerase chain reaction on fine-needle aspirate of a lumbosacral soft tissue mass in one cat and on a tissue punch biopsy of a skin lesion in the other; interferon-gamma release assay inferred M. avium-complex and M. tuberculosis-complex infection in the two cats, respectively. Both patients made a full recovery following antimicrobial therapy with rifampicin, azithromycin, and pradofloxacin (plus N-acetyl cysteine in cat 2). This report highlights successful treatment of systemic M. kansasii mycobacteriosis in the cat and the challenge of accurately diagnosing this infection.

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

40301 - Veterinary science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Pathogens

ISSN

2076-0817

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000594335400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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