Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2007)

Norovirus in Captive Lion Cub (Panthera leo)

  • Vito Martella,
  • Marco Campolo,
  • Eleonora Lorusso,
  • Paolo Cavicchio,
  • Michele Camero,
  • Anna L. Bellacicco,
  • Nicola Decaro,
  • Gabriella Elia,
  • Grazia Greco,
  • Marialaura Corrente,
  • Costantina Desario,
  • Serenella Arista,
  • Krisztián Banyai,
  • Marion Koopmans,
  • Canio Buonavoglia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1307.070268
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 7
pp. 1071 – 1071

Abstract

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African lions (Panthera leo) are susceptible to viral diseases of domestic carnivores, including feline calicivirus infection. We report the identification of a novel enteric calicivirus, genetically related to human noroviruses of genogroup IV, in a lion cub that died of severe hemorrhagic enteritis.

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