1. FELINE CORONAVIRUS AND FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS IN NONDOMESTIC FELID SPECIES.
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Stout AE, André NM, and Whittaker GR
- Subjects
- Africa epidemiology, Animals, Animals, Wild, Animals, Zoo, Brazil epidemiology, Cats, Europe epidemiology, Feline Infectious Peritonitis epidemiology, Feline Infectious Peritonitis mortality, Female, Male, North America epidemiology, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Coronavirus, Feline pathogenicity, Felidae virology, Feline Infectious Peritonitis virology
- Abstract
Feline coronavirus (FCoV) is reported worldwide and known to cause disease in domestic and nondomestic felid species. Although FCoV often results in mild to inapparent disease, a small subset of cats succumb to the fatal, systemic disease feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). An outbreak of FIP in Cheetahs ( Acinonyx jubatus ) in a zoological collection demonstrated the devastating effect of FCoV introduction into a naïve group of animals. In addition to cheetahs, FIP has been described in European wildcats ( Felis silvestris ), a tiger ( Panthera tigris ), a mountain lion ( Puma concolor ), and lion ( Panthera leo ). This paper reviews the reported cases of FIP in nondomestic felid species and highlights the surveys of FCoV in populations of nondomestic felids.
- Published
- 2021
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