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Ramsauer, S.; Bay, G.; Meli, M.; Hofmann-Lehmann, R.; Lutz, H.
Seroprevalence of selected infectious agents in a free-ranging, low-density lion population in the Central Kalahari Game Reserves in Botswana
2007 Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (14): 808-810
Twenty-one free-ranging Central Kalahari lions (_Panthera leo_) exhibited a high prevalence rate of feline herpesvirus (100%) and feline immunodeficiency virus (71.4%). Canine distemper virus and feline calicivirus occurred with a low prevalence. All individuals tested negative for feline coronavirus, feline parvovirus, feline leukemia virus, _Ehrlichia canis_, and _Anaplasma phagocytophilum_.
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