An Outbreak of Canine Distemper Virus in Tigers (Panthera tigris): Possible Transmission from Wild Animals to Zoo Animals

Autor:	Ken Maeda, Yumiko Nagao, Yohei Nishio, Hiroshi Shiomoda, Azusa Sato, Yumi Une, Seiji Tamaru, Megumi Goto, Masayuki Shimojima, Yusuke Ikebe
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	General Veterinary biology Canine distemper viruses animal diseases Outbreak Raccoon Dogs Ursus thibetanus biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Virology Virus Morbillivirus biology.animal medicine Panthera Nyctereutes procyonoides
Zdroj:	Journal of Veterinary Medical Science. 74:699-705
ISSN:	1347-7439 0916-7250
DOI:	10.1292/jvms.11-0509
Popis:	Canine distemper virus (CDV), a morbillivirus that causes one of the most contagious and lethal viral diseases known in canids, has an expanding host range, including wild animals. Since December 2009, several dead or dying wild raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) were found in and around one safari-style zoo in Japan, and CDV was isolated from four of these animals. In the subsequent months (January to February 2010), 12 tigers (Panthera tigris) in the zoo developed respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases, and CDV RNA was detected in fecal samples of the examined tigers. In March 2010, one of the tigers developed a neurological disorder and died; CDV was isolated from the lung of this animal. Sequence analysis of the complete hemagglutinin (H) gene and the signal peptide region of the fusion (F) gene showed high homology among these isolates (99.8-100%), indicating that CDV might have been transmitted from raccoon dog to tiger. In addition, these isolates belonged to genotype Asia-1 and had lower homology (
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