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¹ Field Veterinary Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, 185^th Street and Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York 10460, USA
² Bolivia Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Casilla 6272, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
³ New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
⁶ Corresponding author (email: fiorelloc{at}mail.vetmed.ufl.edu)

ABSTRACT:   Five species of Bolivian carnivores, including nine Geoffroy’s cats (Oncifelis geoffroyi), ten ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), one jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguarondi), nine pampas foxes (Pseudalopex gymnocercus), and five crab-eating foxes (Cerdocyon thous) were sampled between March 2001 and April 2005 and tested for antibodies to common pathogens of domestic carnivores. Carnivores were trapped in three areas: a village, the region between human settlements and a protected area, and within Kaa-Iya National Park, Bolivia. Antibodies to canine distemper virus were detected in ocelots and pampas foxes. Antibodies to canine parvovirus were detected in pampas foxes and crab-eating foxes. Geoffroy’s cats and all of the ocelots tested positive for antibodies to feline calicivirus (FCV), while fewer than half of Geoffroy’s cats and no ocelots had antibodies to feline panleukopenia (FPV). These results confirm that these species of Bolivian carnivores are not naïve to common pathogens of domestic carnivores, and seropositive animals were found in villages as well as in the national park.
  Key words:  Bolivia, calicivirus, canine distemper virus, carnivores, Chaco, conservation, parvovirus, serology.

⁴ Present address: Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine, P.O. Box 100126, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA

⁵ Present address: National Zoological Park, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, 3001 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, DC 20008, USA

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