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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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Table 3

Detection of 2 outbreaks of FeLV infection in Florida panthers*

Time frame No. positive animals/no. tested Prevalence, % (95% CI)
2001–2004 5/131 3.82 (1.64–8.62)
2004–2010 0/125 0 (0–2.98)
2010–2016 6/184 3.26 (1.50–6.93)

*Values are for historic and contemporary FeLV cases. Animals were tested by using a commercially available test that detects FeLV antigenemia. Animals tested before 2001 were uniformly negative. 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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