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Volume 31, Number 4—April 2025
Research
Oz Virus Infection in 6 Animal Species, Including Macaques, Bears, and Companion Animals, Japan
Aya Matsuu1, Kango Tatemoto, Keita Ishijima, Ayano Nishino, Yusuke Inoue, Eunsil Park, Hiroo Tamatani, Junji Seto, Hideo Higashi, Yuichi Fukui, Takashi Noma, Kandai Doi, Rumiko Nakashita, Haruhiko Isawa, Shinji Kasai, and Ken Maeda
Table 2
Geographic distribution of virus-neutralization antibody–positive animals, Japan, 2007–2023*
| Region | Prefecture | No. positive number/no. tested (positive rate, %) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild boar | Sika deer | Japanese macaque | Asian black bear | Dog | Cat | ||
| Hokkaido |
Hokkaido |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
0/1 (0) |
| Tohoku | Aomori | 0/5 (0) | 0/17 (0) | – | – | – | – |
| Akita | – | – | – | 0/98 (0) | – | – | |
| Yamagata | – | – | 0/56 (0) | – | – | – | |
| Miyagi |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
0/3 (0) |
|
| Kanto | Gunma | 0/14 (0) | 18/25 (72.0) | – | – | – | – |
| Chiba | 0/11 (0) | 13/24 (54.2) | – | – | 0/3 (0) | 0/1 (0) | |
| Ibaraki | – | – | – | – | 0/172 (0) | 0/1 (0) | |
| Tokyo | – | – | – | – | 0/5 (0) | 0/1 (0) | |
| Saitama | – | – | – | – | 0/2 (0) | 0/5 (0) | |
| Kanagawa |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
0/1 (0) |
|
| Chubu | Niigata | – | – | – | – | – | 0/2 (0) |
| Nagano | – | – | – | 16/75 (21.3) | 1/2 (50.0) | – | |
| Shizuoka | – | – | – | – | 2/14 (14.3) | 0/3 (0) | |
| Aichi | – | – | 2/6 (33.3) | – | 0/2 (0) | – | |
| Mie | – | 6/9 (66.7) | 0/1 (0) | 8/9 (88.9) | – | 0/1 (0) | |
| Fukui | – | – | 21/34 (61.8) | – | – | – | |
| Gifu | – | 34/60 (56.7) | – | – | – | – | |
| Ishikawa | – | – | – | – | – | 0/3 (0) | |
| Toyoma |
9/14 (64.3) |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
| Kinki | Shiga | – | 4/4 (100) | 7/78 (9.0) | – | – | – |
| Kyoto | – | 7/13 (53.8) | 26/105 (24.8) | 64/66 (97.0) | 0/2 (0) | 0/1 (0) | |
| Nara | – | – | – | 18/21 (85.7) | 0/1 (0) | – | |
| Wakayama | – | – | 2/4 (50.0) | 17/17 (100) | – | 0/2 (0) | |
| Osaka | – | 3/3 (100) | – | – | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | |
| Hyogo |
– |
– |
– |
– |
0/18 (0) |
0/11 (0) |
|
| Chugoku | Okayama | – | 0/1 (0) | 0/2 (0) | 3/3 (100) | 1/2 (50.0) | 0/3 (0) |
| Hiroshima | – | – | – | – | 0/2 (0) | 0/2 (0) | |
| Tottori |
– |
– |
– |
56/68 (82.4) |
0/1 (0) |
0/2 (0) |
|
| Shikoku | Ehime | 15/29 (51.7) | 2/3 (66.7) | 1/3 (33.3) | – | 1/1 (100) | 1/31 (3.2) |
| Tokushima | – | – | 1/17 (5.9) | – | 0/1 (0) | – | |
| Kagawa |
4/20 (20.0) |
6/10 (60.0) |
– |
– |
0/3 (0) |
– |
|
| Kyusyu | Kumamoto | – | – | – | – | 1/11 (9.1) | 0/1 (0) |
| Oita | 5/26 (19.2) | – | – | – | – | 0/1 (0) | |
| Fukuoka | – | 4/4 (100) | – | – | 1/2 (50.0) | 0/5 (0) | |
| Saga | – | – | – | – | 0/2 (0) | 0/2 (0) | |
| Kagoshima |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
0/11 (0) |
|
| Total |
33/119 (27.5) |
97/173 (56.1) |
60/306 (19.6) |
182/357 (51.0) |
7/249 (2.8) |
1/97 (1.0) |
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| *–, no animals of this species were tested in this area. |
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1Current affiliation: Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan.
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