Tularemia Outbreaks in Spain from 2007 to 2020 in Humans and Domestic and Wild Animals
| Autor: | Cristina Ruiz-Sopeña, María del Carmen Martínez-Nistal, José-Ignacio Gómez-Campillo, Constantino Caminero-Saldaña, C.B. Gutiérrez-Martín, Sonia Tamames-Gómez, E. F. Rodríguez-Ferri, Marta Hernández, David Rodríguez-Lázaro, Jesús-Ángel Collazos-Martínez, María del Rosario Esquivel-García, Olga Mínguez-González, Luis-Miguel Fernández-Calle, Sonia Martínez-Martínez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) sheep fox Crocidura russula 030106 microbiology 030231 tropical medicine water Zoology Tick Article Tularemia 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine wolf biology.animal medicine Immunology and Allergy human Francisella tularensis Molecular Biology canids General Immunology and Microbiology biology crayfish Shrew Outbreak biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Crayfish tick tularemia Infectious Diseases vole lagomorphs shrew dog Medicine Vole |
| Zdroj: | Pathogens Volume 10 Issue 7 Pathogens, Vol 10, Iss 892, p 892 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2076-0817 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/pathogens10070892 |
| Popis: | In this study, tularemia outbreaks associated with humans and several domestic and wild animals (Iberian hares, wild rabbits, voles, mice, grey shrews, sheep, dogs, foxes, wolves, ticks, and river crayfish) are reported in Spain from 2007 to 2020. Special attention was paid to the outbreaks in humans in 2007–2009 and 2014–2015, when the most important waves occurred. Moreover, positive rates of tularemia in lagomorphs were detected in 2007–2010, followed by negative results in 2011–2013, before again returning to positive rates in 2014 and in 2017 and in 2019–2020. Lagomorphs role in spreading Francisella tularensis in the epidemiological chain could not be discarded. F. tularensis is described for the first time infecting the shrew Crocidura russula worldwide, and it is also reported for the first time infecting wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Spain. Serological positives higher than 0.4% were seen for sheep only from 2007–2009 and again in 2019, while serological rates greater than 1% were revealed in dogs in 2007–2008 and in wild canids in 2016. F. tularensis were detected in ticks in 2009, 2014–2015, 2017, and 2019. Lastly, negative results were achieved for river crayfish and also in environmental water samples from 2007 to 2020. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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