Volume 30, Number 12—December 2024
Dispatch
Feline Panleukopenia Virus in a Marsican Brown Bear and Crested Porcupine, Italy, 2022–2023
Georgia Diakoudi, Gianvito Lanave, Shadia Berjaoui, Costantina Desario, Giovanni Di Teodoro, Violetta Iris Vasinioti, Francesco Pellegrini, Sabrina V.P. Defourny, Stefania Salucci, Antonio Cocco, Alessio Lorusso, Vito Martella, and Nicola Decaro
Table 1
Results of testing for Protoparvovirus carnivoran1 viruses in wild animals, Abruzzo and Molise regions, Italy, January 2022–May 2023*
| Animal species | No. animals tested | No. animals positive |
Total no. (%) samples positive, tissue type | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FPV | CPV-2a | CPV-2b | CPV-2c | |||
| Wolf (Canis lupus) | 44 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 30 (68.2), I = 27, S = 3 |
| Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) | 26 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 12 (46.2), I = 12 |
| European badger (Meles meles) | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 (46.7), I = 6, MLN = 1 |
| Stone martens (Martes foina) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (50), I = 1 |
| Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (100), I = 1 |
| Crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 (100), MLN = 1 |
| Total | 89 | 18 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 52 (58.4), I = 47, S = 3, MLN = 2 |
*CPV, canine parvovirus; FPV, feline panleukopenia virus; I, intestine; MLN, mesenteric lymph node; S, spleen.
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