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- Title
Orthopoxvirus Seroprevalence in Cats and Veterinary Personnel in North-Eastern Italy in 2011.
- Authors
Lapa, Daniele; Beltrame, Anna; Arzese, Alessandra; Carletti, Fabrizio; Di Caro, Antonino; Ippolito, Giuseppe; Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria; Castilletti, Concetta
- Abstract
Orthopoxviruses (OPV) are emerging zoonotic pathogens, and an increasing number of human infections is currently reported in Europe and in other continents, warranting heightened attention on this topic. Following two OPV infections reported in veterinarians scratched by sick cats in 2005 and 2007 in North-Eastern-Italy, involving a previously undescribed OPV, a similar strain was isolated by a sick cat from the same territory in 2011, i.e., 6 years later, raising attention on OPV circulation in this region. A surveillance program was launched to assess the OPV seroprevalence among the veterinarians working in local veterinary clinics and in the local wild and domestic cat population; seroprevalence was 33.3% in veterinarians and 19.5% in cats. Seroprevalence in cats was unevenly distributed, peaking at 40% in the area where OPV-infected cats had been observed.
- Subjects
ORTHOPOXVIRUSES; SEROPREVALENCE; VETERINARY medicine; ORAL poliomyelitis vaccines; POLIOMYELITIS vaccines
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2019, Vol 11, Issue 2, p101
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/v11020101