Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2018)

Fatal Tickborne Phlebovirus Infection in Captive Cheetahs, Japan

  • Keita Matsuno,
  • Noriyuki Nonoue,
  • Ayako Noda,
  • Nodoka Kasajima,
  • Keita Noguchi,
  • Ai Takano,
  • Hiroshi Shimoda,
  • Yasuko Orba,
  • Mieko Muramatsu,
  • Yoshihiro Sakoda,
  • Ayato Takada,
  • Shinji Minami,
  • Yumi Une,
  • Shigeru Morikawa,
  • Ken Maeda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2409.171667
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 9
pp. 1726 – 1729

Abstract

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Two captive cheetahs from a zoo in Japan died of a severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome–like illness. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, an endemic tickborne phlebovirus, was detected systemically with secretion of infectious viruses into the saliva. These cases highlight the risk for exposure of captive animals to endemic arthropodborne pathogens.

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