Journal article
Feline leprosy due to Candidatus ‘Mycobacterium lepraefelis’: Further clinical and molecular characterisation of eight previously reported cases and an additional 30 cases
CR O’Brien, R Malik, M Globan, G Reppas, C McCowan, JA Fyfe
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2017
Abstract
Objectives: This paper, the last in a series of three on ‘feline leprosy’, provides a detailed description of disease referable to the previously unnamed species, Candidatus ‘Mycobacterium lepraefelis’, a close relative of the human pathogens Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Methods: Cases were sourced retrospectively and prospectively for this observational study, describing clinical, geographical and molecular microbiological data for cats definitively diagnosed with Candidatus ‘M lepraefelis’ infection. Results: A total of 145 cases of feline leprosy were scrutinised; 114 ‘new’ cases were sourced from the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) recor..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by a grant from the Feline Health Research Fund. Carolyn O'Brien was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Richard Malik was supported by the Valentine Charlton Bequest administered by the Centre for Veterinary Education, The University of Sydney.