Successful treatment of multifocal pedal<i>Prototheca wickerhamii</i>infection in a feline immunodeficiency virus-positive cat with multiple Bowenoid in situ carcinomas containing papillomaviral DNA sequences

Abstract

This is only the second reported case of feline protothecosis from Australia and the first case that has been cultured and identified to the species level. Also of great interest was the presence of multiple papillomavirus-associated neoplastic lesions, which may have afforded a portal of entry for the algal pathogen and the cat's positive FIV status; the latter might have impacted on both viral and algal pathogenesis by effects on immunocompetence.