Pseudorabies virus infection (Aujeszky's disease) in an Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) in Spain: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The only natural hosts of Pseudorabies virus (PRV) are members of the family Suidae (Sus scrofa scrofa). In species other than suids infection is normally fatal. In these mammals, including carnivores, PRV typically causes serious neurologic disease. The endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is a wild feline endemic to south-western Europe (Iberian Peninsula). The Iberian lynx was found to be the world's most endangered felid species in 2002. In wild felines, PRV infection has only been previously reported once in a Florida panther in 1994. No seropositive lynxes have ever been found, nor has PRV been detected in dead Iberian lynxes to date.

Case presentation

We describe the first reported case of pseudorabies in an Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus). Pseudorabies was

SUBMITTER: Masot AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5217549 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature