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Serologic evidence of West Nile virus and Usutu virus infections in Eurasian coots in the Netherlands

S. M. Lim, M. Geervliet, J. H. Verhagen, G. J. D. M. Müskens, more

Zoonoses and Public Health > 65 > 1 > 96 - 102

West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) are arboviruses that are maintained in enzootic transmission cycles between mosquitoes and birds and are occasionally transmitted to mammals. As arboviruses are currently expanding their geographic range and emerging in often unpredictable locations, surveillance is considered an important element of preparedness. To determine whether sera collected from...

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Preliminary study on investigation of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in endemic foci of Ethiopia by detecting Leishmania infections in rodents

Wossenseged Lemma, Asrat Bizuneh, Habte Tekie, Habtamu Belay, more

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine > 2017 > 10 > 4 > 418-422

To investigate the zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) by identification of the most probable reservoir hosts using parasite isolation and analysis of a possible transmission dynamics of the disease in extra-domestic agricultural fields and rural villages.Rodents were collected from selected study sites in kala-azar endemic areas based on information for localities of kala-azar cases for screening...

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Differential associations of Borrelia species with European badgers (Meles meles) and raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in western Poland

Beata Wodecka, Jerzy Michalik, Robert S. Lane, Magdalena Nowak-Chmura, more

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases > 2016 > 7 > 5 > 1010-1016

European badgers and raccoon dogs and their associated ticks and lice were assayed for the presence of Lyme borreliosis and relapsing fever-group spirochete DNA in western Poland. Analyses of blood, ear-biopsy and liver samples revealed that 25% of 28 raccoon dogs and 12% of 34 badgers were PCR positive for borreliae. Borrelia garinii was the dominant species in raccoon dogs (62.5%), followed by B...

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Exploring gaps in our knowledge on Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes – Updates on complex heterogeneity, ecology, and pathogenicity

Jan Franke, Anke Hildebrandt, Wolfram Dorn

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases > 2013 > 4 > 1-2 > 11-25

The Lyme borreliosis complex is a heterogeneous group of tick-borne spirochaetes of the genus Borrelia (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae) that are distributed all over the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. Due to the usage of new methods for phylogenetic analysis, this group has expanded rapidly during the past 5 years. Along with this development, the number of Borrelia spp. regarded as pathogenic...

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Poultry as reservoir hosts for fishborne zoonotic trematodes in Vietnamese fish farms

Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, Henry Madsen, Anders Dalsgaard, Nguyen Thi Phuong, more

Veterinary Parasitology > 2010 > 169 > 3-4 > 391-394

Fishborne zoonotic trematodes (FZT) are widespread in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. It is now recognized that the risk of being infected from eating raw fish dishes applies not only to humans, but also to domestic animals (e.g., cats, dogs, and pigs) and fish-eating birds. The role of ducks and chicken, commonly raised on fish farms, as reservoir hosts, however, has not been adequately investigated...

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Zoonotic poxviruses

Sandra Essbauer, Martin Pfeffer, Hermann Meyer

Veterinary Microbiology > 2010 > 140 > 3-4 > 229-236

Poxviruses compromise a group of long known important pathogens including some zoonotic members affecting lifestock animals and humans. While whole genome sequence analysis started to shed light into the molecular mechanisms underlying host cell infection, viral replication as well as virulence, our understanding of poxvirus maintenance in nature and their transmission to humans is still poor. During...

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Reindeer as hosts for nematode parasites of sheep and cattle

J.T. Hrabok, A. Oksanen, M. Nieminen, A. Rydzik, more

Veterinary Parasitology > 2006 > 136 > 3-4 > 297-306

The reindeer husbandry range of Scandinavia overlaps with sheep, goat, and cattle pastures. The aim of this study was to determine whether reindeer are suitable hosts for ovine or bovine nematode parasites, and thus may spread these parasites into the reindeer husbandry regions. To render worm-free, twelve 4-month-old male reindeer calves, six lambs, and six bovine calves were given ivermectin at...

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Mathematical modelling of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: incidental hosts and threshold conditions for infection persistence

Luis Fernando Chaves, Maria-Josefina Hernandez

Acta Tropica > 2004 > 92 > 3 > 245-252

We present a model for the dynamics of transmission of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) that includes a population of incidental hosts for parasites (that is, they act only as sinks of infection), along with species that are reservoir hosts (that is, both source and sink of infection). Although, there is evidence that suggests the existence of incidental hosts for Leishmania parasites, there...

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Domestic dog ownership: a risk factor for human infection with Leishmania (viannia) species

Richard Reithinger, Juan Canales Espinoza, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Clive R. Davies

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene > 2003 > 97 > 2 > 141-145

An epidemiological study has shown that cumulative, village prevalence of Leishmania (Viannia) infection in dogs ranges from 8% to 45% in Huanuco, Peru. Using data from a prospective survey of human American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) collected during 1994-98, it was shown that the village-level risk of human ACL did not significantly increase with dog abundance, neither in absolute terms (P =...

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Detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts in wild mammals of mainland Britain

Veterinary Parasitology > 1999 > 80 > 4 > 273-280

This paper combines the results from a preliminary survey of occurrence of Cryptosporidium species in faecal samples from a range of wild mammal species inhabiting mainland Britain with a tabulated literature review of world-wide reports of the parasite in those British mammals. In the literature, C. parvum was reported from 11 wild mammals found in Britain and elsewhere, mainly in rodents but also...

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Study on the sequential tsetse-transmitted Trypanosoma congolense, T. brucei brucei and T. vivax infections to African buffalo, eland, waterbuck, N'Dama and Boran cattle

Veterinary Parasitology > 1999 > 80 > 3 > 197-213

Susceptibility of African buffalo, eland, waterbuck, N'Dama and Boran cattle to sequential Glossina morsitans centralis-transmitted infections of Trypanosoma congolense, T. brucei brucei and T. vivax was compared, and their possible role as reservoirs of these parasites for G. moristans centralis, G. pallidipes, G. austeni, G. brevipalpis and G. longipennis determined. The buffalo, eland, waterbuck...

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Natural infections of Leishmania peruviana in animals in the Peruvian Andes

E.A. Llanos-Cuentas, N. Roncal, P. Villaseca, L. Paz, more

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene > 1999 > 93 > 1 > 15-20

Evidence that domestic dogs may act as reservoir hosts for cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Peruvian Andes is provided by the isolation, for the first time, from naturally infected dogs of parasites identified (by isoenzymes) as Leishmania peruviana. Leishmania parasites were isolated from nasal aspirates or biopsies from 5 (1.8%) of 279 asymptomatic dogs sampled in endemic villages of the Peruvian...

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Dynamics of Leishmania chagasi infection in small mammals of the undisturbed and degraded tropical dry forests of northern Colombia

B.L. Travi, Y. Osorio, M.T. Becerra, G.H. Adler

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene > 1998 > 92 > 3 > 275-278

The infection rate with Leishmania chagasi and the population dynamics of small mammals were studied in an undisturbed forest reserve (Coloso) and an area of highly degraded forest (San Andres de Sotavento [SAS]) in northern Colombia, both endemic for visceral leishmaniasis. Live trapping of mammals was done every month, and species, age, sex and reproductive status determined. L. chagasi was detected...

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Meriones Iibycus and Rhombomys opimus (Rodentia: Gerbillidae) are the main reservoir hosts in a new focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran

M.R. Yaghoobi-Ershadi, A.A. Akhavan, M. Mohebali

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene > 1996 > 90 > 5 > 503-504

Following an epidemic of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) around Badrood city, central Iran, Meriones libycus were found to be naturally infected with Leishmania major zymodeme MON-26 (= LON-1) in the villages of Matinabad and Fami, 12 km north-west of Badrood. This is the first isolation and characterization of L. major from M. libycus in Iran, in an area where ZCL has been present recently...

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Mastomys natalensis and Tatera gambiana as probable reservoirs of human cutaneous leishmaniasis in Nigeria

E.I. Ikeh, J.A. Ajayi, E.J.C. Nwana

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene > 1995 > 89 > 1 > 25-26

Leishmania sp. was isolated from the livers and spleens of 4 of 56 Mastomys natalensis and one of 21 Tatera gambiana in Keana District, Nigeria; none of the rodents had cutaneous lesions. Parasites were not found in 42 Rattus rattus. Experimentally infected mice developed cutaneous lesions characteristic of L. major infection. The organisms could not be cultivated in vitro.

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Serologic evidence of West Nile virus and Usutu virus infections in Eurasian coots in the Netherlands

Preliminary study on investigation of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in endemic foci of Ethiopia by detecting Leishmania infections in rodents

Differential associations of Borrelia species with European badgers (Meles meles) and raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in western Poland

Exploring gaps in our knowledge on Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes – Updates on complex heterogeneity, ecology, and pathogenicity

Poultry as reservoir hosts for fishborne zoonotic trematodes in Vietnamese fish farms

Zoonotic poxviruses

Reindeer as hosts for nematode parasites of sheep and cattle

Mathematical modelling of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: incidental hosts and threshold conditions for infection persistence

Domestic dog ownership: a risk factor for human infection with Leishmania (viannia) species

Detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts in wild mammals of mainland Britain

Study on the sequential tsetse-transmitted Trypanosoma congolense, T. brucei brucei and T. vivax infections to African buffalo, eland, waterbuck, N'Dama and Boran cattle

Natural infections of Leishmania peruviana in animals in the Peruvian Andes

Dynamics of Leishmania chagasi infection in small mammals of the undisturbed and degraded tropical dry forests of northern Colombia

Meriones Iibycus and Rhombomys opimus (Rodentia: Gerbillidae) are the main reservoir hosts in a new focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran

Mastomys natalensis and Tatera gambiana as probable reservoirs of human cutaneous leishmaniasis in Nigeria

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