Test 2- Parvoviridae Flashcards
Family Parvoviridae
General Properties:
General Properties:
Nonenveloped icosahedral virion, small size, 18-25 nm in diameter.
Virion capsid is composed of 60 protein subunits, T=1
Single- stranded DNA genomes which are linear, approximately 4–6 kb in size Most viruses hemagglutinate red blood cells
Viruses are very stable, resisting 60°C for 60 minutes and pH 3 to pH 9. Disinfection of contaminated premises is difficult.
Family Parvoviridae
Replication:
Replication:
Replication occurs in the nucleus of rapidly dividing cells.
Infection leads to large intranuclear inclusion bodies.
primary in nucleus with inclusion bodies
Family Parvoviridae
Genus Parvovirus:
Virus replication occurs only in cells that pass through mitotic S phase (actively dividing cells).
Cannot replicate in stationary cells, as rely on enzymes of actively dividing cells (mitosis).
Feline panleukopenia
Canine parvovirus
Porcine parvovirus
Family Parvoviridae
Genus: Erythrovirus (Fifth Disease, Slap Cheek Rash):
Genus: Erythrovirus (Fifth Disease, Slap Cheek Rash):
Replicate autonomously.
Includes human parvovirus B19.
In children, B19 causes:
Mild rash illness, also called erythema infectiosum. Aplastic anemia in children
Painful joints
Different from the parvovirus seen in dogs and cats. No evidence of transmission of B19 to humans from dogs or cats, or vice versa (source: CDC)
Family Parvoviridae Genus: Erythrovirus (Fifth Disease, Slap Cheek Rash):
Family Parvoviridae
Genus: Dependovirus
Viruses are themselves replication defective and do not cause disease as they are unable to replicate except in the presence of a helper virus, usually an adenovirus.
Includes goose and duck parvoviruses and, provisionally, bovine parvovirus 2.
Genus: Bocavirus
Bocaviruses are unique among parvoviruses, as they contain a third ORF (Open Reading Frame) between non-structural and structural coding regions
These viruses generally infect the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts.
Found in human, dogs, cattle.
Human bocavirus
Family Parvoviridae
Family Parvoviridae Feline parvovirus
Disease: Feline panleukopenia (FPV)
Feline panleukopenia
Etiology, Host, distribution
Feline panleukopenia (FPV) Synonyms: Feline distemper; feline infectious enteritis
Etiology: Feline parvovirus. Antigenically related to canine parvovirus 2 and mink parvovirus
Host:
All members of the family Felidae are probably susceptible to infection.
Highly contagious, often fatal disease of cats. Severe in kittens.
Also in related families, such as raccoon, mink, etc.
Distribution: Worldwide
Feline panleukopenia (FPV)
Epidemiology:
Epidemiology:
The virus is ubiquitous because of its contagious nature and capacity for persistence in the environment.
Virtually all cats are exposed and infected within first year of life.
Unvaccinated kittens that acquire maternal antibodies are protected up to 3 months of age.
Most infections are subclinical, as much as 75% of unvaccinated healthy cats have demonstrable antibody titers by 1 year of age.
Cats can shed the virus in their urine or feces for a maximum of 6 weeks after recovery.
FPV is maintained in population by environmental persistence rather than by prolonged viral shedding.
Owners losing a kitten to feline panleukopenia should not introduce a new kitten into the household without having it vaccinated.
Feline panleukopenia
Transmission:
Transmission:
Cats are infected oro-nasally by exposure to infected animals, their feces,secretions, or contaminated fomites.
In-utero transmission occurs.
Mechanical transmission by flies.
Feline panleukopenia Pathogenesis
Feline panleukopenia Pathogenesis
After virus entry in the oropharynx, initial virus replication occurs in pharyngeal lymphoid tissue.
Cell-associated viremia(virus in blood) to other organs and tissues via the blood stream.
Cells that have appropriate receptors and are in the S phase of the cell cycle are infected and killed or prevented from entering mitosis.
Feline panleukopenia Pathogenesis
Panleukopenia:
Hallmark of the disease- The more severe the leukopenia, the poorer the prognosis
The characteristic profound leukopenia involves destruction of all white blood cell elements, including lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, and platelets.
Cells present in the circulation [consequence of virus adsorption and cytotoxic lysis] as well as those in lymphoid organs, including the thymus, bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and Peyer’s patches are destroyed.
Thrombocytopenia (due to damage to bone marrow) may accompany leukopenia.
Feline hemorrhagic ileocecal lymph node
Panleukopenia
WBC counts
• TotalWBCcountsof five cats infected with feline parvovirus
Feline panleukopenia Pathogenesis
Enteritis:
Virus selectively damages replicating cells deep in the crypts of the intestinal mucosa.
Differentiating adsorptive cells on the surface of the villi are non-dividing and are not affected.
Normally, the epithelial cells at the tips of the intestinal villi are continuously lost into lumen of the gut.
These are replaced by dividing cells from the crypts.
Feline panleukopenia Pathogenesis
Enteritis:
Feline panleukopenia Pathogenesis
During FPV infection
During FPV infection, loss of cells from tip of villus continues as a normal process. However, since virus replicates and destroys cells of crypts, there is no replacement of the lost absorptive cells at tips of the villi with cells from the crypts.
This results in shortening of intestinal villi, marked villus blunting and fusion, malabsorption and diarrhea.
Feline panleukopenia
Enteritis
Hemorrhagic Spleen, Intestines and Mesenteric Lymph Node
Feline panleukopenia
Dark , Hemorrhagic Jejunum and a Ileum
Feline panleukopenia
Enteritis
Intestine opened to Show Fibrinous Cast
Feline panleukopenia
Enteritis
Basophilic Intranuclear Inclusion Bodies [Arrows]
Feline panleukopenia ENTERITIS
Feline small intestine dilatation
Feline panleukopenia ENTERITIS
Feline small intestine epithelial necrosis, hypereplasia
Feline panleukopenia ENTERITIS
Feline ileocecal junction necrotic enteritis
Feline panleukopenia ENTERITIS
Feline GI tract dilated, congested jejunum
Feline panleukopenia
In-Utero infection
Early in-utero infection in pregnant queen can result in :
Early fetal death and resorption with infertility of the queen
Abortions
Birth of mummified fetuses.
Infection closer to end of gestation:
Birth of live kittens with varying degree of damage to the late-developing neural tissues.- You will see ataxia in the kittens
Variable effects on kittens from the same litter.
Feline panleukopenia
Central Nervous System infection:
Central Nervous System infection:
The CNS, optic nerve and retina are susceptible to damage by FPV during prenatal or early neonatal development.
Of neurological lesions, cerebellar damage has been most commonly reported.
Cerebellar hypoplasia is usually observed in fetuses infected during the last 2 weeks of pregnancy and the first two weeks of life.
Dark foci in retina from a kitten with optic nerve hypoplasia as a result of in-utero FPV infection
Feline panleukopenia
Fetal cerebellum consists of external germinal layer, cells of which undergo rapid cell division and migrate to form internal germinal and Purkinje cell layers.
Normal postnatal cerebellar cortex, outer germinal layer with stellate cells; middle Purkinje cell layer and a deeper granular layer.