Successive deaths of a captive snow leopard (Uncia uncia) and a serval (Leptailurus serval) by infection with feline panleukopenia virus at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo.
Feline parvoviruses were isolated from frozen samples of intestines taken from a snow leopard (Uncia uncia) and a serval (Leptailurus serval) that died successively at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Hokkaido, Japan. Isolates possessed an antigenic epitope for both the feline panleukopenia virus (FPLV) and mink enteritis virus, identified with a hemagglutination inhibition test. Sequencing analyses of the VP2 region of the isolates revealed that the two isolates were identical and of the FPLV-type. These results suggested that FPLV was introduced from a feral cat which entered the zoo and transmitted the virus inside the zoo.
Laboratory of Food and Environmental Hygine, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu 501–1193, Japan.
Yukiko
Y
Sassa
Hideaki
H
Yamamoto
Masami
M
Mochizuki
Takashi
T
Umemura
Motohiro
M
Horiuchi
Naotaka
N
Ishiguro
Takayuki
T
Miyazawa
D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D045989:Felidae; D028301:Feline Panleukopenia Virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D010802:Phylogeny