Disseminated feline histoplasmosis: a case report

Authors

  • Sandra Márcia Tietz Marques Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Adrielly Ehlers
  • Iasmine Biz MottinMottin
  • Elissandra da Silveira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22256/pubvet.v10n3.207-211

Keywords:

cat, histoplasmosis, fungal pneumonia, diagnostic tests.

Abstract

We describe a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a female cat with two-year-old, who lived on a farm in the municipality of San Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul. The animal had ulcerated and nodular lesions in the eyelid muco cutaneous junctions, oral, anal, tongue and hard palate about two weeks. Were performed: blood test, chest radiograph, incisional biopsy, mycological culture and histopathological examination. Histopatological injury examination consists of pyogranulomatous diffuse inflammatory reaction with predominance of macrophages containing numerous fungal forms and characterized in mycological examination as Histoplasma capsulatum.

Published

2016-02-14

Issue

Section

Medicina veterinária

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