Small Animal Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, University of Missouri - College of Veterinary Medicine, 900 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract. 2022 Nov;52(6):1211-1224. doi: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2022.06.007.
Cytauxzoon felis is a hematoprotozoan parasite with a complex life cycle involving a tick-vector and a mammalian host. The mammalian hosts are all felidae but in the bobcat reservoir host, the parasite typically causes only a brief, self-resolving illness followed by a prolonged subclinical infection. In domestic cats, however, infection often leads to an acute febrile illness characterized by severe morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis is based on microscopic identification of parasites or molecular testing. Treatment for ill cats is expensive, difficult, and often unsuccessful. Prevention is quite possible and depends on avoidance of feeding by vector ticks.
猫泰勒虫是一种血原虫寄生虫，具有复杂的生命周期，涉及蜱虫媒介和哺乳动物宿主。哺乳动物宿主均为猫科动物，但在美洲狮储存宿主中，寄生虫通常只会导致短暂、自限性疾病，随后是长期亚临床感染。然而，在家猫中，感染通常会导致急性发热疾病，其特征是严重的发病率和死亡率。诊断基于寄生虫的显微镜鉴定或分子检测。患病猫的治疗费用昂贵、困难且常常不成功。预防非常可能，取决于避免媒介蜱虫的叮咬。
