Prevalence of selected infectious agents in Swedish cats with fever and/or anemia compared to cats without fever and/or anemia and to stable/stray cats

The antibody test results suggest that many of these cats were exposed to other cats (FFV, FcaGHV1, FIV, FeLV), had inadequate flea control (Bartonella spp.), and were fed undercooked meat or allowed to hunt (T. gondii). While infection was common, the only haemotropic Mycoplasma amplified from these cats was the relatively non-pathogenic 'Candidatus M. haemominutum'. As previously documented for each of these agents, the presence of a positive test result or infection by one or more organisms is not always associated with illness.