Maria Marcela Orozco, Danilo Bucafusco, Hernán Dario Argibay, Miguel Angel Rinas, Karen Elizabeth DeMatteo, Carina Francisca Argüelles, Ana Cristina Bratanich, Ricardo Esteban Gürtler
Since its emergence in the 1970s, canine parvovirus (CPV) has spread worldwide and infects a wide variety of mammalian hosts, including domestic and nondomestic carnivores. Today it is one of the most important pathogenic viruses associated with high morbidity and mortality in domestic dogs ( Canis familiaris). In South America, the range of wild hosts has been scarcely studied and the epidemiology of CPV in wildlife is still unclear. In 2011, feces from five wild carnivores (bush dog [ Speothos venaticus] , jaguar [ Panthera onca], puma [ Puma concolor], oncilla [ Leopardus guttulus], and ocelot [ Leopardus pardalis]) were collected in Misiones, Argentina, using a detection dog...
December 2018: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine: Official Publication of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians