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Parvovirus infections in wild carnivores
A Steinel1, C R Parrish, M E Bloom
1Institute for Medical Microbiology, Infectious and Epidemic Diseases, University of Munich, Germany.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|August 16, 2001
Abstract:
Various parvoviruses infect carnivores and can cause disease. In this review article the knowledge about infections of free-ranging or captive carnivores with the feline parvoviruses, feline panleukopenia virus, and canine parvovirus, including the antigenic types CPV-2a and -2b, as well as Aleutian disease of mink virus and minute virus of canines are summarized. Particular emphasis is placed on description of the evolution of canine parvovirus which apparently involved wild carnivore hosts.