INDIRECT FLUORESCENT-ANTIBODY TEST FOR DETECTION OF CYTAUXZOON-LIKE ORGANISMS IN EXPERIMENTALLY INFECTED CATS

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 42  (4) , 460-465
Abstract
Antiserum to feline Cytauxzoon-like parasites was used in conjunction with labeled rabbit antisera to feline globulins to detect the presence of Cytauxzoon-like parasites in spleens of experimentally infected cats. Frozen spleen sections from 21 infected cats showed positively fluorescing masses within splenic veins and a diffuse scattering of discretely fluorescing cells in the red and white pulp. The distribution of fluorescence corresponded with the appearance of parasitized reticulo-endothelial cells in histological preparations of spleen tissue. This indirect fluorescent antibody test consistently detected the presence of Cytauxzoon-like parasites in frozen spleen sections from experimentally infected cats.