SaberVet Feline Anaplasma Antibody Rapid Test offered by Antigenne is a lateral flow immunoassay intended for the qualitative detection of specific antibody from feline anaplasma (F.ANA) in feline serum, plasma or whole blood samples. The test is useful for determination of F.ANA infection.
Description
Border disease is also known as anaplasmosis, anaplasmosis has almost no cell plasma, is a dense, homogeneous, round structure, with a diameter of 0.3~1.0 μm, and can be parasitized on erythrocytes, platelets, and neutrophils of animals and humans, such as cows, sheep, dogs, cats, deer, and so on.
1.Clinical symptoms
Infected cats cause the onset of clinical manifestations of high fever (39.5 ℃), shortness of breath, lung respiratory tone enhancement, eye discharge, checking the skin found to have been damaged by tick wounds. It can also cause thrombocytopenia, enlarged lymph nodes, weight loss and blood abnormalities.
2.Transmission pathways
There are two main ways of transmission: one is the biological transmission of ticks and blood-sucking insects, of which male ticks are the main ones; the other is the mechanical transmission of other blood-sucking insects such as gadflies, stable flies, mosquitoes, and blood pollutants containing the insect bodies.
3.Clinical Diagnosis
There are several clinical diagnostic methods for this disease. Kiemsa staining microscopy method: observe the plasma-free bodies in the red blood cells through microscope, but the detection rate is low, and the invasion rate needs to be more than 0.5% in order to make a positive diagnosis.