Feline panleukopenia

Sa？etak Feline panleukopenia (parvoviral enteritis) is a contagious viral disease caused by the feline parvovirus, and usually affects 3-5 month old kittens. Feline parvovirus is a DNA virus belonging to the family Parvoviridae, genus Parvovirus. FPV is a ubiquitous, extremely stable, highly infectious virus. Panleukopenia is the dominants finding due to the action of the varius on dividing bone marrow cells and lymphocytes with lysis of cells in all infected lymphoid tissue. Early lesions include depletion of lymphoid cells and involution of the thymus, while lesions in prolonged cases affect the small intestine, primarily the intestinal crypt epithelia. This article presents the gross and histologic findings of feline panleukopenia in a Bengal cat, necropsied at the Department of Veterinary Pathology of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb