Lyon-IARC Polyomavirus DNA in Feces of Diarrheic Cats

Elizabeth Fahsbender; Eda Altan; Marko Estrada; M Alexis Seguin; Pauline Young; Christian M Leutenegger; Eric Delwart

doi:10.1128/MRA.00550-19

Lyon-IARC Polyomavirus DNA in Feces of Diarrheic Cats

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jul 18;8(29):e00550-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00550-19.

Authors

Elizabeth Fahsbender^{1

2}, Eda Altan^{1

2}, Marko Estrada³, M Alexis Seguin³, Pauline Young³, Christian M Leutenegger³, Eric Delwart^{4

2}

Affiliations

¹ Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., West Sacramento, California, USA.
⁴ Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA eric.delwart@ucsf.edu.

Abstract

A viral metagenomic analysis of feces from an unexplained outbreak of feline diarrhea revealed the presence of Lyon-IARC polyomavirus (LIPyV) DNA. LIPyV, whose genome was originally sequenced from swabs of human skin, was fecally shed by three out of five diarrheic cats.