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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 41(4), 2005, pp. 810-815
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First Report of an Intraerythrocytic Small Piroplasm in Wild Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus)

Inés Luaces1,6, Enara Aguirre2, Marino García-Montijano1, Jorge Velarde3, Miguel A. Tesouro4, Celia Sánchez5, Margarita Galka5, Pilar Fernández5 and Ángel Sainz2

1 Gir diagnostics S.L., Madrid, Spain;
2 Dpto. Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain;
3 Clínica Veterinaria Fauna, Córdoba, Spain;
4 Dpto. Patología Animal, Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad de León, Spain;
5 Parque Nacional de Doñana, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Huelva, Spain
6 Corresponding author (email: ines{at}girdiagnostics.com)

ABSTRACT:   A wild injured Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) was taken from the Sierra Morena population. During the health check small intraerythrocytic piroplasms, morphologically indistinguishable from other feline piroplasms, were observed in Wright-Giemsa-stained blood films. Amplification by polymerase chain reaction of a portion of the 18S nuclear small subunit (NSS) rRNA gene and sequencing revealed similarity of the unknown organism with sequences obtained from Pallas’s cat from Mongolia and from a domestic cat in Spain. In a retrospective (1993–2003) study of 50 Iberian lynx tissue samples, no amplifications of the 18S NSS rRNA gene of the organism were obtained. This is the first report of a naturally occurring erythroparasitemia in the Iberian lynx and the first documented case of naturally occurring piroplasm infection in a free-ranging felid from Europe.
  Key words:  Cytauxzoon felis, hemoparasite, Iberian lynx, Lynx pardinus, piroplasm.




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