Avaliação da freqüência da infecção por micoplasmas hemotrópicos em gatos com linfoma / Evaluation of feline hemotropic mycoplasma infection in cats with lymphoma

AUTOR(ES)

Magda Liliana Garcia Leal

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

To evaluate the frequency of infection by hemotropic mycoplasmas in cats with lymphoma and its impact in the development of anaemia in those animals, blood samples from 14 animals diagnosed with Lymphoma and without any previous treatment and 14 blood samples from healthy cats were analyzed by means of the PCR-Nested technique. Primers were utilized and selectively amplified fragments of 16SrRNA gene of mycoplasma. Haematology, serum biochemical profile and FeLV/FIV ELISA were performed in all 28 cats. Anaemia was observed in 28.6% (4/14) of the cats with lymphoma. In two of them, anaemia was classified as normocytic-normochromic nonregenerative and in the other two as macrocytic-normochromic nonregenerative. The frequency of feline haemotropic mycoplasmas infection in cats with lymphoma was 7.14% (1/14). After sequencing and identity proof by the GenBank, the agent was identified as M. haemofelis, access number FJ544859. The frequency of retrovirus infection among all the cats with lymphoma was 21.42% (3/14) for FeLV and 7.14% (1/14) for FIV. The cat infected by M. haemofelis was also infected with FeLV, but was not anaemic. The 14 cats used as control did not exhibited infection by mycoplasmas or retrovirus infections. Under the conditions in which this study was developed, one can conclude that the anaemia observed in cats with lymphoma may not be related to hemotropic microplasmas infection, but to haematologyc alterations promoted by the associated neoplasic process and/or the occurrence or of FeLV infection. Therefore, the infection by the mycoplasmas did not present a direct impact in the occurrence of anaemies in cats with limphoma.

ASSUNTO(S)

anaemia feline immunodeficiency virus haemotropic micoplasmas vírus da leucemia felina feline lymphoma micoplasmas hemotrópicos feline leukemia virus anemia vírus da imunodeficiência felina linfoma felino

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