Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2010)

Influenza A Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus Infection in Domestic Cat

  • Brett A. Sponseller,
  • Erin Strait,
  • Albert Jergens,
  • Jessie Trujillo,
  • Karen Harmon,
  • Leo Koster,
  • Melinda Jenkins-Moore,
  • Mary Killian,
  • Sabrina Swenson,
  • Holly Bender,
  • Ken Waller,
  • Kristina Miles,
  • Tracy Pearce,
  • Kyoung-Jin Yoon,
  • Peter Nara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1603.091737
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 3
pp. 534 – 537

Abstract

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Influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus continues to rapidly spread worldwide. In 2009, pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection in a domestic cat from Iowa was diagnosed by a novel PCR assay that distinguishes between Eurasian and North American pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus matrix genes. Human-to-cat transmission is presumed.

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