First Description of a Carnivore Protoparvovirus Associated with a Clinical Case in the Iberian Lynx (<i>Lynx pardinus</i>).

ABSTRACT: One of the main threats for the survival of the Iberian lynx is infectious disease. Feline parvoviruses cause often fatal diseases in cats and have been isolated from different species of Felidae and other carnivores. The present study is the first description of a parvoviral sequence isolated from the brain of an Iberian lynx which died four weeks after being transferred to a quarantine centre from a hunting estate in Castilla-La-Mancha (southern border of the Iberian plateau). Four days prior to death, it had developed anorexia and muscle weakness. The nucleotide sequence, at 4589 nt long (GenBank PP781551), was most proximal to that isolated from a Eurasian badger in Italy but also showed great homology with others from cats and other carnivores isolated in Spain and Italy, including th

SUBMITTER: Campoy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11988045 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature