| laboratory findings in acute cytauxzoon felis infection in cougars (puma concolor couguar) in florida. | intraerythrocytic piroplasms, morphologically indistinguishable from cytauxzoon felis, were identified in stained blood films from more than one third of free-ranging cougars (puma concolor couguar) in southern florida in a study that failed to demonstrate negative effects of piroplasm infection on measured hematologic parameters. however, a recent study with a nested 18s rrna polymerase chain reaction (pcr) assay identified only 9% of the free-ranging cougars in southern florida as infected wit ... | 2007 | 17679513 |
| hematology and serum chemistry values for free-ranging florida panther neonates with a comparison to adult panther values. | hematologic and serum chemistry values were determined for 25 free-ranging florida panther (puma concolor couguar) neonates from southern florida sampled from january 2001 to april 2007. the kittens were < or = 25 days old, belonging to 12 litters, from 11 different dams. forty-one blood samples also were collected from 32 free-ranging adult panthers (3-10 yr-old) from southern florida from november 2000 to february 2007. male kittens had higher hemoglobin (hb), hematocrit (hct), and red blood c ... | 2009 | 19617501 |