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Emerg Infect Dis
; 24(9): 1726-1729, 2018 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30124411
ABSTRACT
Two captive cheetahs from a zoo in Japan died of a severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome-like illness. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, an endemic tickborne phlebovirus, was detected systemically with secretion of infectious viruses into the saliva. These cases highlight the risk for exposure of captive animals to endemic arthropodborne pathogens.