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Editor, Senior Moderator
Zoonoses Public Health. 2012 Aug 16. doi: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2012.01541.x. [Epub ahead of print]
Serological Survey in Dogs and Cats for Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Germany.
Damiani AM, Kalthoff D, Beer M, M?ller E, Osterrieder N.
Source
Institut f?r Virologie, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Berlin, Germany Friedrich-Loeffler Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany LABOKLIN GmbH, Bad Kissingen, Germany.
Abstract
A serological survey for the detection of antibodies to influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 was carried out in a population of dogs and cats in Germany. A total of 1150 sera collected in 2010 and 2011 were screened using an ELISA targeting anti-nucleoprotein NP antibodies. Those initially screened positive samples were subsequently tested for antibodies to N1 neuraminidase followed by a virus neutralization test using A/Bayern/74/2009 strain. A prevalence of A(H1N1)pdm09-specific antibodies of 0.13% and 1.93% was estimated among dogs and cats, respectively. Evidence of exposure to other influenza A virus subtypes was also observed.
? 2012 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.
PMID:
22898303
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22898303
Serological Survey in Dogs and Cats for Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Germany.
Damiani AM, Kalthoff D, Beer M, M?ller E, Osterrieder N.
Source
Institut f?r Virologie, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Berlin, Germany Friedrich-Loeffler Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany LABOKLIN GmbH, Bad Kissingen, Germany.
Abstract
A serological survey for the detection of antibodies to influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 was carried out in a population of dogs and cats in Germany. A total of 1150 sera collected in 2010 and 2011 were screened using an ELISA targeting anti-nucleoprotein NP antibodies. Those initially screened positive samples were subsequently tested for antibodies to N1 neuraminidase followed by a virus neutralization test using A/Bayern/74/2009 strain. A prevalence of A(H1N1)pdm09-specific antibodies of 0.13% and 1.93% was estimated among dogs and cats, respectively. Evidence of exposure to other influenza A virus subtypes was also observed.
? 2012 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.
PMID:
22898303
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22898303