Dogs as Sentinels for Human Infection with Japanese Encephalitis Virus

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 16; no. 7; pp. 1137 - 1139
• Main Authors: Shimoda, Hiroshi, Ohno, Yoshito, Mochizuki, Masami, Iwata, Hiroyuki, Okuda, Masaru, Maeda, Ken
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 01.07.2010
• Subjects: Animals; Antibodies, Viral - blood; Cats - virology; Dispatch; dogs; Dogs - virology; encephalitis; Encephalitis Virus, Japanese - isolation & purification; Encephalitis, Japanese - etiology; Humans; Japanese; Sentinel surveillance; Seroepidemiologic Studies; Swine - virology; vector-borne infections; viruses

Because serosurveys of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) among wild animals and pigs may not accurately reflect risk for humans in urban/residential areas, we examined seroprevalence among dogs and cats. We found that JEV-infected mosquitoes have spread throughout Japan and that dogs, but not cats,...