Cats as a potential source of emerging influenza virus infections

• Published in: Virologica Sinica Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 221 - 223
• Main Authors: Horimoto, Taisuke, Gen, Fumihiro, Murakami, Shin, Iwatsuki-Horimoto, Kiyoko, Kato, Kentaro, Hisasue, Masaharu, Sakaguchi, Masahiro, Nidom, Chairul A., Kawaoka, Yoshihiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wuhan Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS 01.06.2015
• Subjects: Animals; Antibodies, Viral - blood; avian; Biochemistry; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cat Diseases - transmission; Cat Diseases - virology; Cats; causing; chicken; clade; emerging; fatal; Humans; illness; Influenza A virus - immunology; Influenza, Human - virology; Letter; Medical Microbiology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Oncology; Orthomyxoviridae Infections - transmission; Orthomyxoviridae Infections - veterinary; Orthomyxoviridae Infections - virology; pathogenic; seasonal; serological; Surveys and Questionnaires; Virology; Zoonoses - transmission; Zoonoses - virology; Pdm09 Virus; H5N1 Avian Virus; Human Virus; VIROLOGICA SINICA; Emerg Infect

<正>Dear Editor,Historically,the influenza virus has not been regarded as a major pathogen of cats.However,since 2003,natural infections of domestic cats with highly pathogenic H5N1 avian virus causing fatal cases have been reported(Songserm et al.,2006;Yingst et al.,2006;Klopfleisch et...