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SUBMITTER: van den Brand JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3294532 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van den Brand Judith M A JM Stittelaar Koert J KJ van Amerongen Geert G van de Bildt Marco W G MW Leijten Lonneke M E LM Kuiken Thijs T Osterhaus Albert D M E AD
Emerging infectious diseases 20101101 11
To demonstrate that pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus may cause respiratory disease in cats, we intratracheally infected cats. Diffuse alveolar damage developed. Seroconversion of sentinel cats indicated cat-to-cat virus transmission. Unlike in cats infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1), extrarespiratory lesions did not develop in cats infected with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus. ...[more]