Epizootiologic investigations of selected infectious disease agents in free-ranging Eurasian lynx from Sweden

Serum samples from 106 Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) from across Sweden, found dead or shot by hunters in 1993-99, were investigated for presence of antibodies to feline parvovirus (FPV), feline coronavirus, feline calicivirus, feline herpesvirus, feline immunodeficiency virus, Francisella tularensis, a...

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Main Authors: Ryser-Degiorgis, Marie-Pierre, Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina, Leutenegger, Christian M, af Segerstad, Carl Hård, Mörner, Torsten, Mattsson, Roland, Lutz, Hans
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wildlife Disease Association 2005
Subjects:
Department of Farm Animals
570 Life sciences
biology
630 Agriculture
Lynx
Lynx lynx lynx
Online Access:https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/128151/
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/128151/1/JWD.pdf
https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-128151
https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-41.1.58
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Summary:Serum samples from 106 Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) from across Sweden, found dead or shot by hunters in 1993-99, were investigated for presence of antibodies to feline parvovirus (FPV), feline coronavirus, feline calicivirus, feline herpesvirus, feline immunodeficiency virus, Francisella tularensis, and Anaplasma phagocytophila, and for feline leukemia virus antigen. In addition, tissue samples from 22 lynx submitted in 1999 were analyzed by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect nucleic acids specific for viral agents and A. phagocytophila. Except for FPV antibodies in one lynx and A. phagocytophila in four lynx, all serology was negative. All PCR results also were negative. It was concluded that free-ranging Swedish lynx do not have frequent contact with the infectious agents considered in this study.

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