All about toxoplasmosis in cats: the last decade

JP Dubey, CK Cerqueira-Cézar, FHA Murata… - Veterinary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Toxoplasma gondii infections are common in humans and animals worldwide.
Toxoplasmosis continues to be of public health concern. Cats (domestic and wild felids) are …

A review of chlamydial infections in wild birds

HS Stokes, ML Berg, ATD Bennett - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Chlamydia are a globally distributed genus of bacteria that can infect and cause
disease in a range of hosts. Birds are the primary host for multiple chlamydial species. The …

Experimental infection of domestic dogs and cats with SARS-CoV-2: Pathogenesis, transmission, and response to reexposure in cats

AM Bosco-Lauth, AE Hartwig… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
has reached nearly every country in the world with extraordinary person-to-person …

A Case of Letting the Cat out of The Bag—Why Trap-Neuter-Return Is Not an Ethical Solution for Stray Cat (Felis catus) Management

HM Crawford, MC Calver, PA Fleming - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is advocated as an effective, humane and
ethical solution to problems caused by stray cats living in close association with human …

Who let the cats out? A global meta-analysis on risk of parasitic infection in indoor versus outdoor domestic cats (Felis catus)

K Chalkowski, AE Wilson, CA Lepczyk… - Biology …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Parasitic infection risks in domestic animals may increase as a result of outdoor activities,
often leading to transmission events to and from owners, other domestic animals and …

Urbanization and anticoagulant poisons promote immune dysfunction in bobcats

LEK Serieys, AJ Lea, M Epeldegui… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding how human activities influence immune response to environmental stressors
can support biodiversity conservation across increasingly urbanizing landscapes. We …

Synergistic China–US ecological research is essential for global emerging infectious disease preparedness

T Smiley Evans, Z Shi, M Boots, W Liu, KJ Olival… - EcoHealth, 2020 - Springer
The risk of a zoonotic pandemic disease threatens hundreds of millions of people. Emerging
infectious diseases also threaten livestock and wildlife populations around the world and …

Prevalence and genomic sequence analysis of domestic cat hepadnavirus in the United States

C Stone, R Petch, RB Gagne, M Nehring, T Tu… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hepadnaviruses are partially double-stranded DNA viruses that infect a variety of species.
The prototypical virus in this family is the human hepatitis B virus, which chronically infects …

Seasonal changes in network connectivity and consequences for pathogen transmission in a solitary carnivore

MLJ Gilbertson, SN Hart, K VanderWaal, D Onorato… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Seasonal variation in habitat use and animal behavior can alter host contact patterns with
potential consequences for pathogen transmission dynamics. The endangered Florida …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple introductions of domestic cat feline leukemia virus in endangered Florida panthers

ES Chiu, S Kraberger, M Cunningham… - Emerging infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The endangered Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi) had an outbreak of infection
with feline leukemia virus (FeLV) in the early 2000s that resulted in the deaths of 3 animals …