Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Wagner DC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5749746 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wagner Denae C DC Kass Philip H PH Hurley Kate F KF
PloS one 20180102 1
Upper respiratory infection (URI) is not an inevitable consequence of sheltering homeless cats. This study documents variation in risk of URI between nine North American shelters; determines whether this reflects variation in pathogen frequency on intake or differences in transmission and expression of disease; and identifies modifiable environmental and group health factors linked to risk for URI. This study demonstrated that although periodic introduction of pathogens into shelter populations ...[more]