PMID- 21705099
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20111115
LR  - 20220321
IS  - 1873-1716 (Electronic)
IS  - 0167-5877 (Linking)
VI  - 101
IP  - 3-4
DP  - 2011 Sep 1
TI  - When cats' ways of life interact with their viruses: a study in 15 natural 
      populations of owned and unowned cats (Felis silvestris catus).
PG  - 250-64
LID - 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.04.020 [doi]
AB  - In natural populations, virus circulation is influenced by host behavior and 
      physiological characteristics. Cat populations exhibit a great variability in 
      social and spatial structure, the existence of different ways of life within a 
      same population may also result in different epidemiological patterns. To test 
      this hypothesis, we used a logistic regression to analyze the risk factors of 
      Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), feline herpes virus (FHV), feline 
      calicivirus (FCV), and feline parvovirus (FPV) infection in owned (fed and 
      sheltered) and unowned (neither fed nor sheltered, unsocialized) cats living in a 
      rural environment in the North Eastern part of France. A serological survey was 
      carried out in 492 non-vaccinated and non-sterilized individuals from 15 
      populations living in the same area. The prevalence of feline leukemia virus 
      (FeLV) was also studied, but too few were infected to analyze the risk factors of 
      this virus. For each virus, the epidemiological pattern was different in owned 
      and unowned cats. Unowned cats were more frequently infected by directly 
      transmitted viruses like FIV, FHV and FCV (21.22%, 67.66%, 86.52% in unowned cats 
      vs 9.55%, 53.88%, 77.18% in owned cats, respectively), a difference that may be 
      explained by a more solitary and more aggressive behavior in unowned adults, 
      and/or possibly by a higher sensitivity related to a more stressful life. On the 
      contrary, owned cats were more frequently infected with FPV (36.41% in owned cats 
      vs 15.61% in unowned cats), possibly as a result of their concentration around 
      human settlements. The present study showed that owned and unowned cats living in 
      a same area have behavioral and physiological characteristics sufficiently 
      different to influence virus circulation. Pooling different types of cats in a 
      single sample without taking it into account could give a wrong picture of the 
      epidemiology of their viruses. The conclusion of this work can be extended to any 
      epidemiological studies led in wildlife species with flexible behavior as any 
      variations in social or spatial structure, between or within populations, could 
      result in different virus circulation.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Hellard, E
AU  - Hellard E
AD  - Universite de Lyon, Universite Lyon1, CNRS, UMR 5558, Laboratoire de Biometrie et 
      Biologie Evolutive, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France. 
      eleonore.hellard@univ-lyon1.fr
FAU - Fouchet, D
AU  - Fouchet D
FAU - Santin-Janin, H
AU  - Santin-Janin H
FAU - Tarin, B
AU  - Tarin B
FAU - Badol, V
AU  - Badol V
FAU - Coupier, C
AU  - Coupier C
FAU - Leblanc, G
AU  - Leblanc G
FAU - Poulet, H
AU  - Poulet H
FAU - Pontier, D
AU  - Pontier D
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20110625
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Prev Vet Med
JT  - Preventive veterinary medicine
JID - 8217463
RN  - 0 (Antibodies, Viral)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Animals, Wild
MH  - Antibodies, Viral/blood
MH  - Calicivirus, Feline/*isolation & purification
MH  - Cat Diseases/epidemiology/*virology
MH  - Cats
MH  - Feline Panleukopenia Virus/*isolation & purification
MH  - Female
MH  - France/epidemiology
MH  - Herpesviridae/*isolation & purification
MH  - Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline/*isolation & purification
MH  - Leukemia Virus, Feline/*isolation & purification
MH  - Logistic Models
MH  - Male
MH  - Pets
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Rural Population
MH  - Seroepidemiologic Studies
MH  - Virus Diseases/epidemiology/transmission/*veterinary/virology
EDAT- 2011/06/28 06:00
MHDA- 2011/11/16 06:00
CRDT- 2011/06/28 06:00
PHST- 2010/09/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/04/20 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2011/04/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/06/28 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/06/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/11/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0167-5877(11)00148-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.04.020 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Prev Vet Med. 2011 Sep 1;101(3-4):250-64. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.04.020. 
      Epub 2011 Jun 25.