PMC:2700745 / 41192-41936 JSONTXT

{"project":"2_test","denotations":[{"id":"19176218-18258127-3579305","span":{"begin":438,"end":442},"obj":"18258127"},{"id":"19176218-18258127-3579305","span":{"begin":438,"end":442},"obj":"18258127"},{"id":"19176218-16572146-100518390","span":{"begin":738,"end":742},"obj":"16572146"},{"id":"19176218-16572146-100518390","span":{"begin":738,"end":742},"obj":"16572146"},{"id":"T69207","span":{"begin":438,"end":442},"obj":"18258127"},{"id":"T73315","span":{"begin":438,"end":442},"obj":"18258127"}],"text":"Dogs can also be infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. Because these animals are often in close contact with both wild and domestic birds and with humans, this raises the possibility that the virus could adapt to dogs and be transmitted to humans while retaining virulence. To date it has been found that dogs are susceptible to experimental infection but are not capable of transmitting the virus to other mammals (Giese et al., 2008). The disease in dogs was characterized by the development of conjunctivitis and fever within 2 days after virus exposure, which resolved with no other adverse events by day 7. Dogs may be useful more as sentinel for human disease than as a model for human influenza disease (Cleaveland et al., 2006)."}