Tritrichomonas foetus is the causative agent of bovine trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease in cattle that can result in large profit losses for cattle producers. Increasing reports have suggested that T. foetus is also the causative agent of large-bowel diarrhea in cats. To determine if the trichomonads recovered from the reproductive tract of cattle and the large intestine of cats can thrive in the same host, 2 groups of virgin Angus heifers were inoculated with T. foetus. The first group of heifers was inoculated with a bovine T. foetus isolate cultured from a naturally infected cow, and heifers in the second group were inoculated with T. foetus organisms cultured from the feces of a naturally infected cat. Over an 11-wk period, vaginal, cervical, and uterine mucus samples were analyzed, along with a single transcervical uterine biopsy sample, to determine organism and disease presence. The mucus and biopsy samples collected from each group indicate that the disease caused by feline and bovine isolates of T. foetus are comparable, but not identical.
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December 2007
PATHOLOGY|
December 01 2007
EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF CATTLE WITH A FELINE ISOLATE OF TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS
Heather Stockdale;
Heather Stockdale
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
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Soren Rodning;
Soren Rodning
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
* Animal Sciences 107, Auburn University, Comer Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849
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Maurice Givens;
Maurice Givens
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
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David Carpenter;
David Carpenter
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
† Mathematics and Science, Auburn University, 211 Parker Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849
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Stephen Lenz;
Stephen Lenz
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
‡ Purdue University, 406 South University Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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Jennifer Spencer;
Jennifer Spencer
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
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Christine Dykstra;
Christine Dykstra
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
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David Lindsay;
David Lindsay
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
§ Department of Biomedical Science and Pathobiology, Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, 1410 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0342
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Byron Blagburn
Byron Blagburn
Auburn University, Department of Pathobiology, 166 Greene Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849. [email protected]
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J Parasitol (2007) 93 (6): 1429–1434.
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Heather Stockdale, Soren Rodning, Maurice Givens, David Carpenter, Stephen Lenz, Jennifer Spencer, Christine Dykstra, David Lindsay, Byron Blagburn; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF CATTLE WITH A FELINE ISOLATE OF TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS. J Parasitol 1 December 2007; 93 (6): 1429–1434. doi: https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-1305.1
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