Wildlife Plague Surveillance Near the China–Kazakhstan Border: 2012–2015

Wildlife Plague Surveillance Near the China–Kazakhstan Border: 2012–2015

Summary Plague is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This pathogen can be transmitted by fleas and has an enzootic cycle, circulating among small mammals, and occasionally epizootic cycles, infecting other species. In China, infected wild rodents are primarily reservoirs of...

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Published in:Transboundary and emerging diseases Vol. 64; no. 6; pp. e48 - e51
Main Authors: Zhao, S.‐S., Pulati, Y., Yin, X.‐P., Li, W., Wang, B.‐J., Yang, K., Chen, C.‐F., Wang, Y.‐Z.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Germany Hindawi Limited 01-12-2017
Subjects:
Animals
bacterial isolation
China - epidemiology
China–Kazakhstan border
Dog Diseases - epidemiology
Dog Diseases - microbiology
Dogs
Epidemiological Monitoring - veterinary
Infections
Marmota
Marmota baibacina
MLVA
Plague
Plague - epidemiology
Plague - microbiology
Plague - veterinary
Prey
Rodent Diseases - epidemiology
Rodent Diseases - microbiology
Rodents
Sciuridae
Sentinel Surveillance - veterinary
Wildlife
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis - classification
Yersinia pestis - genetics
Yersinia pestis - isolation & purification
Zoonoses
China
China-Kazakhstan border
MLVA
Marmota baibacina
Yersinia pestis
bacterial isolation
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Summary:Summary Plague is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This pathogen can be transmitted by fleas and has an enzootic cycle, circulating among small mammals, and occasionally epizootic cycles, infecting other species. In China, infected wild rodents are primarily reservoirs of Y. Pestis and are related to human infection (Int. J. Infect. Dis., 33, 2015 and 67; BMC Microbiol., 9, 2009 and 205). Because shepherd dogs prey on and eat rodents (e.g. marmots and mice), they are valuable sentinel animals for plague serosurveillance in endemic disease foci, although their infections are usually asymptomatic (Vet. Microbiol., 172, 2014 and 339).
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ISSN:1865-1674
1865-1682
DOI:10.1111/tbed.12603