Title :

Prevalence of Tritrichomonas foetus infections in French catteries.

Author(s) :

Profizi, Claire [Auteur]
Cian, Amandine [Auteur]
Schistosomiase, paludisme et inflammation
Meloni, Dionigia [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Hugonnard, Marine [Auteur]
Lambert, Véronique [Auteur]
Groud, Karine [Auteur]
Gagnon, Anne-Claire [Auteur]
Viscogliosi, Eric [Auteur]
Zenner, Lionel [Auteur]
Génétique et évolution des interactions hôtes-parasites

Journal title :

Veterinary Parasitology

Pages :

50-5

Publisher :

Elsevier

Publication date :

2013-09-01

ISSN :

0304-4017

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

Recently, Tritrichomonas foetus, the known etiologic agent of bovine trichomonosis was identified in domestic cats in many countries around the world. In felids, this parasite would be a significant cause of large-bowel ...
Show more >Recently, Tritrichomonas foetus, the known etiologic agent of bovine trichomonosis was identified in domestic cats in many countries around the world. In felids, this parasite would be a significant cause of large-bowel diarrhoea. Therefore the aim of the present study was to determine for the first time the prevalence of T. foetus infection in French catteries. In this epidemiological survey, rectal swabs from 140 cats participating in three international shows were tested for the presence of motile parasites by microscopy after culturing. The prevalence of T. foetus infection was 14.3% among cats (20/140) and 15.9% among catteries (18/117). These values were similar to those previously obtained in other European countries. Except for the age, no significant associations were found between the presence of T. foetus and various risk factors of infection such as the size of the cattery, the type of food, or the vicinity of a dog. Internal transcribed region of the ribosomal DNA unit was sequenced from the 20 T. foetus isolates identified in this study. They exhibited 100% identity and are homologous with other sequences of strains isolated from domestic cats in other countries.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille (CIIL) - U1019 - UMR 9017

Source :

Harvested from HAL