Cytauxzoon felis: An Overview [PDF]
Pathogens, 2023 Cytauxzoon felis is a tick-transmitted, obligate, hemoprotozoal, piroplasmid pathogen of felids and the causative agent of cytauxzoonosis. It has a complex life cycle which includes a tick as its definitive host and a felid as its intermediate host ...
Yvonne M. Wikander, Kathryn E. Reif
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Cytauxzoon felis in salivary glands of Amblyomma americanum
Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 2023 Cytauxzoon felis is a tick-borne piroplasmid hemoparasite that causes life-threatening disease in cats. Despite the critical role that ticks play in pathogen transmission, our knowledge regarding the C.
Tzushan S. Yang +7 more
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The First Case of Cytauxzoon spp. in Russia: The Parasite Conquers Eurasia [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Over the last two decades, Cytauxzoon spp. has been conquering Eurasia, although this fact has only been brought to light through recent more intensive research after the discovery of C. manul in Pallas’ cat.
Sergey V. Naidenko +6 more
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Evaluation of various sample sources for the cytologic diagnosis of Cytauxzoon felis [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2022 Background Cytauxzoon felis is a life‐threatening protozoan disease of cats. Identification of schizont‐laden macrophages is a point‐of‐care diagnostic test for acute cytauxzoonosis.
Casey R. Sleznikow +5 more
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First report of Cytauxzoon sp. infection in domestic cats in Switzerland: natural and transfusion-transmitted infections [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Background Cytauxzoonosis is an emerging tick-borne disease of domestic and wild felids. Cytauxzoon felis induces severe and often fatal disease in domestic cats. In Europe, clinical and subclinical infections caused by Cytauxzoon sp. are described.
Alice Nentwig +8 more
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Cytauxzoon sp. and Hepatozoon spp. in Domestic Cats: A Preliminary Study in North-Eastern Italy [PDF]
Pathogens, 2021 Knowledge on the presence of Cytauxzoon sp. and Hepatozoon spp. in Italy is scant and mostly limited to a few areas of Northern and Southern regions, respectively.
Marika Grillini +7 more
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Microscopic and molecular detection of Cytauxzoon spp. in cats in Mosul city, Iraq [PDF]
Iraqi Journal of Veterinary SciencesThe study aims to diagnose Cytauxzoon spp. in affected stray cats in Mosul. To achieve this goal, microscopic and conventional polymerase chain reaction technology was used, and the genetic analysis of Cytauxzoon spp. was verified.
Sura S. Aghwan +2 more
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Cytauxzoon sp. Infection and Coinfections in Three Domestic Cats in Central Italy
Veterinary Sciences, 2022 Cytauxzoonosis is an emerging disease caused by a tick-transmitted haemoprotozoan affecting domestic and wild felids. The clinical and biomolecular findings of the infection due to Cytauxzoon sp.
Maria Teresa Antognoni +6 more
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Cytauxzoon europaeus infections in domestic cats in Switzerland and in European wildcats in France: a tale that started more than two decades ago [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background Cytauxzoon spp. infection is believed to be a newly emerging tick-borne disease in felids in Europe, with three species of the haemoparasite having recently been differentiated in wild felids.
Barbara Willi +10 more
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Molecular Detection of Cytauxzoon spp. in Asymptomatic Brazilian Wild Captive Felids [PDF]
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2009 Cytauxzoon spp. DNA was detected for the first time in blood samples from asymptomatic Brazilian wild captive felids. In 2006, 72 EDTA blood samples from seven wild felids species: Puma concolor (puma), Leopardus pardalis (ocelot), Puma yagouaroundi (jaguarundi), Leopardus wiedii (margay), Leopardus tigrinus (little spotted cat), Oncifelis colocolo ...
André, Marcos R. +7 more
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