Naslov
Faecal virome of red foxes from peri-urban areas

Autori
Lojkić, Ivana ; Biđin, Marina ; Prpić, Jelena ; Šimić, Ivana ; Krešić, Nina ; Bedeković, Tomislav

Izvornik
Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases (0147-9571) 45 (2016); 10-15

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Circovirus ; Parvovirus ; Picobirnavirus ; Red fox ; Viral metagenom

Sažetak
Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) are the most abundant carnivore species in the Northern Hemisphere. Sincetheir populations are well established in peri-urban and urban areas, they represent a potential reser-voir of viruses that transmit from wildlife to humans or domestic animals. In this study, we evaluatedthe faecal virome of juvenile and adult foxes from peri-urban areas in central Croatia. The dominatingmammalian viruses were fox picobirnavirus and parvovirus. The highest number of viral reads (N = 1412)was attributed to a new fox circovirus and complete viral genome was de novo assembled from the high-throughput sequencing data. Fox circovirus is highly similar to dog circoviruses identified in diseased dogsin USA and Italy, and to a recently discovered circovirus of foxes with neurologic disease from the UnitedKingdom. Our fox picobirnavirus was more closely related to the porcine and human picobirnavirusesthan to known fox picobirnaviruses.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija, Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita, Veterinarska medicina

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