Lagana Danielle M, Lee Justin S, Lewis Jesse S, Bevins Sarah N, Carver Scott, Sweanor Linda L, McBride Roy, McBride Caleb, Crooks Kevin R, VandeWoude Sue
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
J Wildl Dis. 2013 Jul;49(3):718-22. doi: 10.7589/2012-10-243.
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) classically infects felid species with highly divergent species-specific FIVs. However, recent studies have detected an FIV strain infecting both bobcats (Lynx rufus) and pumas (Puma concolor) in California and Florida. To further investigate this observation, we evaluated FIV from bobcats in Florida (n=25) and Colorado (n=80) between 2008 and 2011. Partial viral sequences from five Florida bobcats cluster with previously published sequences from Florida panthers. We did not detect FIV in Colorado bobcats.
猫免疫缺陷病毒（FIV）通常感染猫科动物，不同猫科动物感染的FIV具有高度差异的物种特异性。然而，最近的研究在加利福尼亚州和佛罗里达州检测到一种FIV毒株，同时感染短尾猫（Lynx rufus）和美洲狮（Puma concolor）。为了进一步研究这一观察结果，我们在2008年至2011年期间评估了来自佛罗里达州（n = 25）和科罗拉多州（n = 80）的短尾猫的FIV。来自五只佛罗里达州短尾猫的部分病毒序列与先前发表的佛罗里达美洲狮的序列聚类。我们在科罗拉多州的短尾猫中未检测到FIV。
