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Veterinary Pathology, Vol 20, Issue 4 460-471, Copyright © 1983 by American College of Veterinary Pathologists

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Experimental transmission of a feline mycobacterial skin disease (feline leprosy)

H. B. Schiefer and D. M. Middleton

Non-culturable acid-fast bacteria from two spontaneous cases of so-called feline leprosy were transmitted to rats and cats and further passaged in rats or cats. Two to six months after infection, cats developed cutaneous lesions that were indistinguishable from spontaneous cases, including the occurrence of nasal granulomata in one cat. When injected into rats, the mycobacteria caused a generalized mycobacteriosis and the granulomatous reaction was composed chiefly of macrophages without polymorphonuclear granulocytes. Infection of cats with Mycobacterium lepraemurium did not produce any lesions. The feline disease may be a suitable model for the study of human leprosy (Hansen's Disease).


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