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Journal of Virology, September 1999, p. 7916-7921, Vol. 73, No. 9
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Interspecies Transmission of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus from the Domestic Cat to the Tsushima Cat (Felis bengalensis euptilura) in the Wild

Yoshiaki Nishimura,1 Yuko Goto,1 Kumiko Yoneda,2 Yasuyuki Endo,1 Takuya Mizuno,1 Masaharu Hamachi,3 Hiroyuki Maruyama,3 Hirotoshi Kinoshita,3 Susumu Koga,3 Mitsuru Komori,3 Seigo Fushuku,4 Kanji Ushinohama,4 Masao Akuzawa,4 Toshihiro Watari,1 Atsuhiko Hasegawa,5 and Hajime Tsujimoto1,*

Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo,1 and Japan Wildlife Research Center,2 Tokyo, Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden, Fukuoka,3 Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kagoshima, Kagoshima,4 and Department of Pathobiology, Nihon University School of Veterinary Medicine, Kanagawa,5 Japan

Received 11 February 1999/Accepted 15 June 1999

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) was isolated from a wild-caught Tsushima cat (Felis bengalensis euptilura), an endangered Japanese nondomestic subspecies of leopard cat (F. bengalensis). Phylogenetic analysis of the env gene sequences indicated that the FIV from the Tsushima cat belonged to a cluster of subtype D FIVs from domestic cats. FIVs from both the Tsushima cat and the domestic cat showed similar levels of replication and cytopathicity in lymphoid cell lines derived from these two species. The results indicated the occurrence of interspecies transmission of FIV from the domestic cat to the Tsushima cat in the wild.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan. Phone: 81-3-5841-8004. Fax: 81-3-5841-8178. E-mail: atsuji{at}hongo.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Journal of Virology, September 1999, p. 7916-7921, Vol. 73, No. 9
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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