Jambi, ja tam wole opierac sie na zrodlach zagranicznych, tu sa te zrodla, ktore wyslalam Myszy wczoraj (nie wszystkie, bo jest tego duzo wiecej)
w kazdym prawie anglojezycznym zrodle pisze o tym, ze najbardziej zagrozone sa kocieta i koty slabe:
http://www.hdw-inc.com/healthtoxo.htm
Often, there are no clinical signs to this disease in cats. On occasion, there are some early non-specific symptoms such as lethargy, depression, loss of appetite and fever, especially in kittens and young adult cats. The most outstanding sign in most cats is feline pneumonia, which shows up as respiratory distress that continues to increase in severity. Toxoplasmosis can also affect the eyes and the central nervous system, producing inflammation of the retina, possible abnormal pupil size, and even blindness, lack of coordination, personality changes, circling, head pressing, ear twitching, seizures, difficulty in chewing and swallowing food, seizures, and loss of control over urination and defecation functions. Hepatitis, or inflammation of the liver, can also occur which can bring about episodes of vomiting, diarrhea, prostration and jaundice, which is yellowing of the mucous membranes. The pancreas can also become inflamed and the lymph nodes may become enlarged.
ow do I treat my Cat for Toxoplasmosis??
Currently, there is no vaccination for this disease, but there are two drugs that are often used successfully, and they are Pyrimethamine and Sulfadiazine, used together. Treatment must be started as soon as possible after diagnosis and continued for several days after signs have disappeared. With some cats, pyrimethamine may be very unpalatable or even toxic, and there is a new antibiotic called Clindamycin that looks promising and should be tried for those cats having a reaction to pyrimethamine.
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/resource ... /toxo.html Diagnosis
Toxoplasmosis may be strongly suspected by the history, signs of illness, and the results of supportive laboratory tests. A presumptive diagnosis may be made by demonstration of a fourfold or greater increase in antibody titers to Toxoplasma (indicating a recent infection) over a three- or four-week period in a cat showing signs suggestive of toxoplasmosis. A definitive diagnosis requires either microscopic examination of tissues or tissue impression smears for distinctive pathologic changes and the presence of tachyzoites or inoculation of suspect material into laboratory mice.
The presence of significant antibody levels in a healthy cat suggests that the cat has been previously infected and now is most likely immune and not excreting oocysts. The absence of antibody in a healthy cat suggests that the cat is susceptible to infection and thus would shed oocysts for one to two weeks following exposure.
http://www.fiv-toxo.exactpages.com/ 2. What connection does toxoplasmosis have to FIV infection?
Healthy people and cats quickly fight off acute toxoplasmosis infection. The organism encysts itself within body tissue, where it remains permanently suppressed by the immune system for the rest of an individual’s life–that is, unless the immune system is seriously dysfunctional and unable to keep it suppressed. Toxoplasmosis that has become inactive is referred to as “chronic.” Toxoplasmosis that breaks out anew in immune-suppressed individuals is referred to as “reactivated.” Reactivated toxoplasmosis is a life-threatening illness for HIV-infected people and FIV-infected cats who have passed from the asymptomatic stage of their illness (AC) to a more advanced stage (ARC) or to the final stage (AIDS) of their infection.
The danger of reactivation is particularly acute in cats and humans with full-blown AIDS. It is estimated, for instance, that as high as 10% of deaths from HIV are due to toxoplasmosis. No reliable statistics exist for cats. Reactivated toxoplasmosis can attack the nervous system, the respiratory tract, the eyes, the liver, the intestines–almost anywhere in the body–producing devastating illness that will almost certainly be lethal if left untreated and that may still prove lethal even with treatment
http://www.fabcats.org/toxoplasmosis.html Clinical feline toxoplasmosis
Despite the high prevalence of T gondii infection, significant clinical disease in cats (and other species) appears to be very rare. When disease does occur, it may develop either following primary infection (where an inadequate immune response fails to arrest the invasive tachyzoites), or as a result of reactivated infection (where compromised immunity allows the reactivation of infection from encysted bradyzoites with the formation of invading, multiplying tachyzoites).
Clinical disease appears to be most common in young cats (less than 2 years of age), and this may be due, in part, to a poorly developed immune response in these cats. Reactivation of infection in older cats may be linked to co-infection with feline leukaemia virus or feline immunodeficiency virus in some cats.