Morelli Simone, Diakou Anastasia, Colombo Mariasole, Di Cesare Angela, Barlaam Alessandra, Dimzas Dimitris, Traversa Donato
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, 64100 Teramo, Italy.
School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Pathogens. 2021 Apr 10;10(4):454. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10040454.
The nematodes , and are the most important parasites inhabiting the airways of cats. They are receiving growing attention from academia, pharmaceutical companies and veterinarians, and are now considered a primary cause of respiratory diseases in feline clinical practice and parasitology. In the past few years, several studies have been conducted in both natural and experimental settings to increase knowledge, provide new insights and fill gaps on respiratory parasitoses of cats. Awareness and knowledge of clinical scenarios towards appropriate and timely diagnosis and prompt and efficacious treatment options have become a priority to investigate. At the same time, chemopreventative approaches have been evaluated to assess the geographical spreading of these parasites and the rise in the number of clinical cases in cat populations of different countries. Given the intense accumulation of novel data, this review presents and discusses the state of the art and the latest updates on the clinical features, treatment, and control of major respiratory parasitoses of cats. Moreover, food for thought is also provided with the aim of spurring on new studies in the near future.
线虫 和 是寄生于猫气道的最重要寄生虫。它们日益受到学术界、制药公司和兽医的关注，目前被认为是猫科临床实践和寄生虫学中呼吸道疾病的主要病因。在过去几年里，已经在自然和实验环境中开展了多项研究，以增加对猫呼吸道寄生虫病的了解、提供新见解并填补相关空白。对临床情况的认识以及关于适当及时诊断和迅速有效治疗方案的知识，已成为研究的优先事项。与此同时，已对化学预防方法进行了评估，以评估这些寄生虫在不同国家猫种群中的地理传播情况以及临床病例数量的增加。鉴于新数据的大量积累，本综述介绍并讨论了猫主要呼吸道寄生虫病的临床特征、治疗和控制方面的最新技术水平和最新进展。此外，还提供了一些值得思考的内容，以期在不久的将来推动新的研究。
