Taiana Costa, Mark F Stidworthy, Rosina Ehmann, Daniela Denk, Ian Ashpole, Gabby Drake, Iuliana Maciuca, Gudrun Zoeller, Hermann Meyer, Julian Chantrey
Journal of comparative pathology 2023 JulCowpox virus is considered to be a re-emerging zoonotic pathogen and a public health threat due to increasing numbers of cases in humans and animals in Europe over the past decade, including within the United Kingdom (UK). We present epidemiological data and diagnostic features of 27 recent, naturally occurring cowpox cases in zoo and wild animals across the UK, including the first reports of cowpox in two snow leopards (Panthera uncia), a Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), three Chilean pudus (Pudu puda), a Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) and a Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), and the first reports of Orthopoxvirus infection in a lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), a Southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) and an aardvark (Orycteropus afer). This study provides a detailed overview of cowpox infections in a wide range of non-domestic animal species, presents a range of methods for diagnosis and demonstrates the value of retrospective analysis of pathology surveillance in revealing epidemiological links. Copyright © 2023 University of Liverpool, UK. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Taiana Costa, Mark F Stidworthy, Rosina Ehmann, Daniela Denk, Ian Ashpole, Gabby Drake, Iuliana Maciuca, Gudrun Zoeller, Hermann Meyer, Julian Chantrey. Cowpox in zoo and wild animals in the United Kingdom. Journal of comparative pathology. 2023 Jul;204:39-46
PMID: 37352825
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