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Titre :	Management measures to control a feline leukemia virus outbreak in the endangered Iberian lynx
Auteurs :	G. Lopez, Auteur ; M. Lopez-Parra, Auteur ; L. Fernandez, Auteur ; C. Martinez-Granados, Auteur ; F. Martinez, Auteur ; M. L. Meli, Auteur ; J. M. Gil-Sanchez, Auteur ; N. Viqueira, Auteur ; M. A. Diaz-Portero, Auteur ; R. Cadenas, Auteur ; H. Lutz, Auteur ; A. Vargas, Auteur ; M. A. Simon, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Animal Conservation (12(3) JUN 2009)
Article en page(s) :	173-182
Résumé :	The feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is a retrovirus that affects domestic cats all over the world. Its pathogenic effects generally include anemia, immunosuppression or tumors. Dissemination over populations is linked to cat sociality, because the virus is transmitted by direct contact. Although the domestic cat is its common host, FeLV infection has also been described in some wild felids. In the Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus, some sporadic FeLV infection cases have been reported since 1994, but an outbreak with the involvement of several animals has never been described until now. During spring 2007, an FeLV outbreak hit the Donana (SW Spain) population. The infection rapidly spread throughout the densest subpopulation throughout Donana. Infected animals showed very acute anemic disease, most of them dying in

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