High rate of feline immunodeficiency virus infection in cats in the Brazilian semiarid region: Occurrence,associated factors and coinfection with Toxoplasma gondii and feline leukemia virus |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratório de Imunologia e Doenças Infectocontagiosas. Departamento de Medicina Veterinária. Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, IFPB, Sousa, Paraíba, Brasil;2. Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, UFPB, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil;1. Department of Microbiology, College of Science, Agriculture and Modern Technology, Shiraz branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran;2. Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Amol University of Special Modern Technologies, Amol, Iran;3. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran;1. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Veterinary Pathobiology and Disease Control, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, PR China;2. Livestock and Poultry Epidemic Diseases Research Center of Anhui Province, Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China;1. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy;2. Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia;3. Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Lyon, France |
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| Abstract: | To evaluate the occurrence of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and factors associated with this and to demonstrate occurrences of coinfection with Toxoplasma gondii and feline leukemia virus (FeLV) in cats, a total of 103 blood samples were collected from owned cats, during home visits. To diagnose FIV and FeLV, immunochromatographic kit was used and serological diagnoses of T. gondii, the indirect immunofluorescence test was performed. The occurrence of FIV-seropositive cats was 23.3% (24/103) and the factor associated with infection was male sex. T. gondii seropositivity of 53.4% (55/103) was observed and 75% of FIV cases (18/24) were positive for T. gondii coinfection. Only 0.9% (1/103) was positive for FeLV. It can be concluded that the seroprevalence of FIV in cats in the Brazilian semiarid region is high and that FIV positive cats were also likely to be T. gondii seropositive, while FeLV had very low occurrence in the study region. |
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| Keywords: | Epidemiology Diagnosis FeLV FIV Retroviral diseases Toxoplasmosis |
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