Myelitis in a cat infected with Toxoplasma gondii and feline immunodeficiency virus

Heidel, J.R.; Dubey, J.P.; Blythe, L.L.; Walker, L.L.; Duimstra, J.R.; Jordan, J.S.

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 196(2): 316-318

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488
PMID: 2153650
Document Number: 358589
Severe necrotizing myelitis secondary to localization and reactivation of T. gondii within the spinal cord of a domestic shorthair cat was diagnosed by use of light and electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry. The cat also was infected with feline immunodeficiency virus. This case may have useful comparative features to T. gondii infections in human patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

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