Case series summary: Feline tuberculosis is an increasingly recognised potential zoonosis of cats. Treatment is challenging and prognosis can vary greatly between cases. Pulmonary infection requires extended courses of antibiotics, but methodologies for sensitively monitoring response to treatment...
Author(s)
Major, A.; O'Halloran, C.; Holmes, A.; Lalor, S.; Littler, R.; Spence, S.; Schwarz, T.; Gunn-Moore, D.
Publisher
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, USA
Citation
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 2018, 20, 2, pp 189-199
Background: The diagnosis of previous cases of feline tuberculosis in Turkey has been made based solely on pathological changes without isolation of the causative agent. This case report details the first case of feline tuberculosis in Turkey for which the causative agent (Mycobacterium bovis) was...
Author(s)
Eroksuz, Y.; Baydar, E.; Otlu, B.; Dabak, M.; Eroksuz, H.; Karabulut, B.; Incİlİ, C. A.; Tİmurkan, M. O.
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
BMC Veterinary Research, 2019, 15, 9, pp (05 January 2019)
Mycobacteriosis is an emerging zoonotic disease of domestic cats and timely, accurate diagnosis is currently challenging. To identify differential cytokine/chemokine concentrations in serum/plasma of cats, which could be diagnostic biomarkers of infection we analysed plasma/serum from 116...
Author(s)
O'Halloran, C.; McCulloch, L.; Rentoul, L.; Alexander, J.; Hope, J. C.; Gunn-Moore, D. A.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group, London, UK
Citation
Scientific Reports, 2018, 8, 1, pp 17314
This study describes clinical and histopathological features, treatment, and outcome of cats diagnosed with ocular mycobacteriosis. Cases diagnosed from 2012 to 2017 were reviewed for (a) histopathological evidence of ocular (pyo)granulomatous inflammation containing acid-fast bacilli with...
Author(s)
Stavinohova, R.; O'Halloran, C.; Newton, J. R.; Oliver, J. A. C.; Scurrell, E.; Gunn-Moore, D. A.
Publisher
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, USA
Citation
Veterinary Pathology, 2019, 56, 5, pp 749-760
Objectives: Mycobacterium bovis, a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, can infect cats and has proven zoonotic risks for owners. Infected cats typically present with a history of outdoor lifestyle and hunting behaviour, and cutaneous granulomas are most commonly observed. The aim of...
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O'Halloran, C.; Ioannidi, O.; Reed, N.; Murtagh, K.; Dettemering, E.; Poucke, S. van; Gale, J.; Vickers, J.; Burr, P.; Gascoyne-Binzi, D.; Howe, R.; Dobromylskyj, M.; Mitchell, J.; Hope, J.; Gunn-Moore, D.
Publisher
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, USA
Citation
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 2019, 21, 8, pp 667-681
Case series summary: This paper describes the clinical presentation, diagnostic imaging findings and outcome in four cats with confirmed joint-associated tuberculosis. The cats were 2-6 years of age, and immune competent. Three cases had tuberculosis affecting only one joint, whereas one case had...
Author(s)
Lalor, S. M.; Clarke, S.; Pink, J.; Parry, A.; Scurrell, E.; Fitzpatrick, N.; Watson, F.; O'Halloran, C.; Gunn-Moore, D.
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd, London, UK
Citation
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2017, 3, 2, pp 2055116917719401
Among infectious animal diseases, tuberculosis infection has a special place. Dogs and cats are potential source and carrier of the causative agent of tuberculosis, participating in the process of mutual re-infection between humans and animals. The aim of the work is to establish a laboratory...
Author(s)
Danko, Yu. Yu.; Kuzmin, V. A.; Kisil, A. S.; Kovalenko, A. M.; Goncharov, S. A.
Publisher
Sankt-Peterburgskaya gosudarstvennaya akademiya veterinarnoy meditsiny, St Petersburg, Russia
Citation
Mezhdunarodnyy vestnik veterinarii, 2018, No.4, pp 17-23
Author(s)
Gunn-Moore, D.; O'Halloran, C.
Publisher
British Small Animal Veterinary Association, Quedgeley, UK
Citation
Companion, 2020, No.January, pp 4-9
Clinical pathological aspects of four cases of tuberculosis in domestic cats in southern Rio Grande do Sul is described. A retrospective study was conducted of cats diagnosed with tuberculosis and necropsied at the Regional Diagnostic Laboratory of the Federal University of Pelotas (LRD/UFPel) from ...
Author(s)
Alves, D. M.; Motta, S. P. da; Zamboni, R.; Marcolongo-Pereira, C.; Bonel, J.; Raffi, M. B.; Schild, A. L.; Sallis, E. S. V.
Publisher
Colégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Citation
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2017, 37, 7, pp 725-728
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 treated at a veterinary clinic in Kiev, Ukraine, which is ...
Author(s)
Černá, P.; O'Halloran, C.; Sjatkovskaj, O.; Gunn-Moore, D. A.
Publisher
Wiley, Berlin, Germany
Citation
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2019, 66, 1, pp 250-258