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Volume 25, Number 1—January 2019
Research

Multiple Introductions of Domestic Cat Feline Leukemia Virus in Endangered Florida Panthers1

Elliott S. Chiu, Simona Kraberger, Mark Cunningham, Lara Cusack, Melody Roelke, and Sue VandeWoudeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (E.S. Chiu, S. Kraberger, S. VandeWoude); Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville, Florida, USA (M. Cunningham, L. Cusack); National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (M. Roelke)

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Temporally and spatially distinct FeLV cases in endangered Florida panthers, Florida, USA. A) Incidence of FeLV in live-caught and necropsied Florida panthers. Recaptured panthers are not represented. Different colors indicate first (yellow) and second (red) outbreak events. A vaccination campaign began in 2003 and efforts to actively vaccinate panthers continued until 2007; vaccination has continued opportunistically since the campaign. B) Distribution of historic and contemporary Florida panth

Figure 1. Temporally and spatially distinct FeLV cases in endangered Florida panthers, Florida, USA. A) Incidence of FeLV in live-caught and necropsied Florida panthers. Recaptured panthers are not represented. Different colors indicate first (yellow) and second (red) outbreak events. A vaccination campaign began in 2003 and efforts to actively vaccinate panthers continued until 2007; vaccination has continued opportunistically since the campaign. B) Distribution of historic and contemporary Florida panther FeLV cases in southern Florida. FeLV, feline leukemia virus.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, June 24–27, 2017, Santa Barbara, California, USA.

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