PRIMARY STUDY OF SEROPREVALENCE TO VIRUS PATHOGENS IN WILD FELIDS OF SOUTH PRIMORIE, RUSSIA

• Main Authors: Naidenko, Sergey, Hernandez-Blanco, Jose Antonio, Pavlova, Ekaterina, Erofeeva, Mariya, Sorokin, Pavel, Litvinov, Michael, Kotlyar, Andrey, Sulikhan, Nadezhda, Rozhnov, Vyatsheslav
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2018
• Subjects: Elliot; Lynx; Lynx lynx lynx
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/89907; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjz-2017-0192

Seroprevalence to nine different virus pathogens was estimated for Russian big cats (Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica Temminck, 1844) and far-eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis Schiegel, 1857) in Southern Primorie, Russia (n=25) in 2008-2016. Serum samples from smaller cats (Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx Linnaeus, 1758) and far-eastern wildcat (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus Elliot, 1871) were also tested for these pathogens (n=19) during the same period. Felids of Russian Southern Primorie showed seroprevalence to eight out of nine tested pathogens, including highly dangerous feline immunodeficiency virus, feline leukemia virus and canine distemper virus. Antibodies to feline panleukopenia virus were found to be much more widespread in cats (45%) than antibodies to any other virus. They were detected in samples taken from tigers, leopards and far-eastern wildcats but not lynxes. Antibodies to pseudorabies virus were detected only in Amur tiger (29%), whose main prey is the most common carrier of the virus (wild boar), unlike for the other studied catsâ species. The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author.