Abstract
This paper discusses the case report on Mycoplasma infection in cat and its timely diagnosis by blood smear examination and haematology. It also discusses the treatment and response of the cat for the disease. Haemobartonellosis in cats is caused by Mycoplasma haemofelis , formerly known as Haemobartonella felis . An eight months old Persian cat was received in the Small Animal Clinics, Out Patient Ward, Medicine department, Madras Veterinary College with the history to suspect for feline Mycoplasmosis. Peripheral blood smear and whole blood sample was collected and subjected to blood smear examination and whole blood for routine haematological study. It revealed codocytosis, anisocytosis and hypochromasia. Few ghost cells also were seen. Nearly 80–85% of the RBCs revealed darkly stained small organism at the rim or periphery of the cells.
Highlights
Haemobartonellosis is a disease of cats caused by Mycoplasma haemofelis, formerly called as Haemobartonella felis
M. haemominutum, causes infection in cats but less likely to cause disease. These mycoplasma infections are not caused by typical bacteria, but by a group of microorganisms called mycoplasma
Thereby, mycoplasmas are passed on in the environment. They live in the blood cells; they could be spread via a blood transfusion from an infected animal to a non-infected one
Summary
Balagangadhar Tilagar and P.S.Thirunavukkarasu2 1Centralised Clinical Laboratory, Vepery, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 2Department of Clinics, Madras Veterinary College, Vepery, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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