protozoan parasites: flagellates, amoebae, ciliates...
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Protozoan Parasites:
Lecture 20 - Heteroxenous Coccidia - Part 1 Pages 39-51
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“Tissue cyst”-forming Coccidia
• General Taxonomy – Apicomplexa
• Heteroxenous
– Two host life cycles
• Asexual & sexual reproduction
– Intestinal epithelium or sub- epithelium of a carnivore definitive host
• Asexual development also takes place in extra-intestinal tissues of the intermediate host
– “Tissue cysts”- forming coccidia
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General Morphology
• Intestinal stages
• Same as for other coccidia merozoites, microgamonts, macrogamonts
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General Morphology
• Extra-Intestinal stages
– General coccidian ‘zoite’ morphology
• Tachyzoites
– Crescent shaped, ~6 um
• Proliferate rapidly forming colonies
• Bradyzoites
– Crescent shaped, ~7 um
• Multiply slowly within tissue cysts
Bradyzoite within tissue cyst
Tachyzoite on blood smear
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General Morphology
• Extra-Intestinal stages
• Tissue cysts
– Contain bradyzoites which divide slowly resulting in increasing sizes of tissue cysts
– Young tissue cysts 5 um
– Older tissue cysts grow to 50 um
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Toxoplasmosis
• Toxoplasma gondii
– World wide distribution
• Definitive host
– Cats & other felids
• Intermediate host
– Indiscriminate
– Any warm blooded animal
• mammals or birds
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Toxoplasma gondii: Life Cycle
1-5 days to mature = sporulate
Cats Ingesting bradyzoites produce millions of oocysts = most important mode of transmission to definitive host
Few oocysts Produced from ingesting tachyzoites
20% of cats ingesting oocysts develop a patent infection - few oocysts
Dubey 1998
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Jones et al. 2003
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Prevalence
• Cats: – North America ~ 30%
– Spain ~ 45%
– Japan ~ 6%
• Humans: – North America - 15-23%
– Veterinary staff (Ontario 2002) - 14.2%
– U.K. - 30%
– France - 80%
– New Zealand - 60%
• Other animals: – Variable seroprevalences
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Pathogenesis & Clinical signs
Cats - definitive host
• Intestinal phase – Young cats
• Shed oocysts - intense & brief
• No pathology, no clinical signs
• Extra-intestinal phase – Kittens (< 3 months)
– Rarely in older cats
– Common clinical signs - Anorexia, depression, lethargy, icterus, vomiting
– Less common signs – pneumonia, encephalitis & chorioretinitis
– Death in severe cases (rare)
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Pathogenesis & Clinical signs
Intermediate hosts
• Two types of disease:
– Acquired Toxoplasmosis
– Congenital Toxoplasmosis
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Acquired Toxoplasmosis
Domestic animals • Sheep & Goats
– Mild febrile response
• Cattle & Horses – Clinical signs rare
• Swine – Clinical signs rare
• Dogs – Clinical signs rare – BUT when occur
• Young dogs <1 year old • Myositis & muscle atrophy • CNS signs - ataxia, tremors, uveitis
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Acquired Toxoplasmosis
Humans – Zoonosis
• Healthy people:
– Most have no clinical signs
• Mild clinical signs – Flu-like symptoms
– Transient headache, muscle & joint pain, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes
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Acquired Toxoplasmosis
Humans – Zoonosis
• Immunodeficient people:
– Severe disease
• Pneumonia, myocarditis, encephalitis, chorioretinitis, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes
• Reactivated latent infection...
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Congenital Toxoplasmosis
• Most serious form of disease
• Major concern
– Humans
– Sheep > goats
• Primary maternal infection acquired during pregnancy for transmission to placenta / fetus
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Congenital Toxoplasmosis
Sheep > Goats
• Major cause of abortion
– Fetus may be mummified, macerated, autolyzed or resorbed
– Fetal lesions in heart, brain & liver
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Congenital Toxoplasmosis
Sheep > goats
• Focal inflammation & necrosis within the placenta
– Small (~2 mm) white chalky lesion
– Tachyzoites & tissue cysts
• Subsequent pregnancy
– Abortions are rare
– Ewe develops immunity • Normal pregnancy
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Congenital Toxoplasmosis
Humans – Zoonosis • Abortion rare
• Premature birth common
– At birth: “Classic triad”
• Chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, intracranial calcification
• Later in life
– Mental illness, blindness, epilepsy ...
• Asymptomatic
– No clinical signs
– Reactivated latent infections...
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Diagnosis
• Centrifugal Fecal flotation – Cats shed oocysts
• sporadic & inconsistent • confounders Hammondia & Besnoitia sp.
• Serology – Valuable in Humans > Sheep – Less value in cats? – Acute infection
• Elevated IgM titres with low/normal IgG – In cats, greatest risk to shed oocysts
– Chronic/Previous infection • Low IgM titres & higher IgG
– In cats, less likely to shed oocysts
• Toxoplasma Reference Lab – ELISA & PCR
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Toxoplasmosis Treatment
Humans – Congenital
• Mother & child
– Acquired / Reactivated • Immunodeficient
– Pyrimethamine & sulphadiazine &/or spiramycin with folinic acid
Animals – Rare to treat livestock – Common to treat companion animals – Pyrimethamine & sulphadiazine,
clindamycin, azithromycin
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Prevention & Control
Cats : – Prevent hunting & scavenging – Keep cats indoors – Do not feed raw or undercooked meat
&/or unpasteurized dairy – Seronegative cat is a risk to humans if
infected – Seropositive cat less risk to humans
• Unless shedding now = risk • If not shedding = less risk
Domestic Animals: – Prevent cats defecating in feed & water – Control cat population on farm – Toxovax® in sheep / goats
• One dose = lifetime protection (New Zealand & UK)
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Prevention & Control
Humans – Zoonosis • What can you do?
– Do not eat meat • Uncooked or rare
– Pasteurized dairy products only – Empty litter box daily - gloves,
spouse? – Gardening - wear gloves – Wash vegetables & fruit – Proper hygiene – hand washing – Starting a family?
• Contact you health professional and have a conversation…
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Neosporosis
• Neospora caninum
• Fatal neuromuscular disease of dogs
• Major cause of reproductive failure & abortion in cattle
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Morphology
• All stages identical to Toxoplasma except the tissue cysts – Neospora tissue cysts are
found only in the CNS, peripheral nerves & retina
– Toxoplasma tissue cysts thin walls (< 1 um)
– Neospora tissue cysts thick walls (>1 um & up to 4 um)
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Neospora life cycle
#’s correspond to clinical signs, please see later slides 41-43
1
2 & 3
4
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Epidemiology
Transmission
• Percentage of dogs/canids shedding oocysts is unknown
• Congenital transmission occurs in dogs, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, horses cats, mice, monkeys...birds too!
– No evidence of zoonosis
• Repeated congenital transmission may occur & can occur over several generations
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Epidemiology
Prevalence – Common cause of
abortion in beef & dairy cattle worldwide
– Serologic surveys – cattle • Up to 100% of cattle
have been exposed in some herds
• Maritime dairies - 73% of herds & 19% of cows found to be positive
• UK ~ 35% of abortions
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Epidemiology
Prevalence
– Seroprevalence in dogs
• Variable
• Higher rates in dogs on dairy farms vs. dogs from urban areas
• Most clinical cases occur in congenitally infected young dogs
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Pathogenesis
• Similar to toxoplasmosis
– Destruction of host cells by tachyzoites resulting in focal areas of necrosis
– Focal encephalitis, encephalomyelitis, myositis & myocarditis characterized by necrosis & non-suppurative inflammation
http://www.visionveterinaria.com/rivep/art/09jun43.htm
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Clinical signs
Cattle – Abortion is major clinical
sign (2) • Cows of any age can abort
between 3 months gestation & term
• Most abortions around 5-6 months
• Fetus may die in utero, be resorbed, mummified, autolyzed or stillborn
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Clinical signs
Cattle
– Infected calves born alive (3)
• Neurological signs – Ataxia, decreased patellar reflexes
& exophthalmia
• Underweight, downer, hind limbs &/or forelimbs flexed or hyper extended
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Clinical signs
Cattle
– Calves may also be born infected without clinical signs (1)
• Persistent infection
– Risk to next generation
– Calves may also be born free of infection (4)
• Cycle is broken
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Clinical signs
Neosporosis in Dogs – Subclinical infection is common – Clinical disease
• Young dogs 3 weeks to < 6 months • Rigid hyper-extended limbs & hind limb
paresis -paralysis • Paralysis of the jaw with difficulty swallowing • Muscle flaccidity, muscle atrophy, heart
failure • Severe dermatitis • Worst case - all above +cervical weakness,
dysphagia, megaesophagus...death
– Litter mates are often infected – Older dogs less common
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Diagnosis
Cattle • Fetal tissues - brain, heart, liver,
lungs – Tissue cysts – Lesions
• Focal areas of necrosis • Non-suppurative inflammation
– Immunohistochemistry – IHC • Neospora vs.Toxoplasma tachyzoites
– Fetal fluids & serum of cows • Antibody titre - IFAT, ELISA, DAT http://www.visionveterinaria.com/
rivep/art/09jun43.htm
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Diagnosis
Dogs • Antibodies - serum or CSF • Litter mates with clinical signs
– Congenital neosporosis
• Gross lesions – Ulcerative dermatitis – Necrosis of CNS – Yellowish-white streaks in muscles
• IHC, ELISA...? • Centrifugal Fecal flotation
– Sporadic & inconsistent shedding – confounder species
• Hammondia &Toxoplasma
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Treatment & Control
Cattle • Protect feed & water sources
from contamination
• Do not let dogs eat fetal membranes, fetuses or dead calves
• Cow that aborts once may abort again (persistent infection) & may have to be culled
• No treatment for livestock
• Vaccine but no efficacy data?
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Treatment & Control
Dogs • Prevent canids from eating fetal membranes, fetuses or dead
calves by proper disposal
• Treatment may be attempted with sulfonamides, pyremethamine & clindamycin
• Treat all littermates
• No therapy to Tx “doggie mothers” to prevent transmission
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Protozoan Parasites: Heteroxenous Coccidia – Part 2