Environmental Exposure of Wild Carnivores to Zoonotic Pathogens: <i>Leptospira</i> Infection in the First Free Living Wolf (<i>Canis lupus </i>Linnaeus, 1758) found Dead in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region

Environmental Exposure of Wild Carnivores to Zoonotic Pathogens: <i>Leptospira</i> Infection in the First Free Living Wolf (<i>Canis lupus </i>Linnaeus, 1758) found Dead in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region

Leptospirosis is a worldwide-spread zoonosis causing disease and death in dogs and in humans. A Leptospiral infection has been recorded in several wild carnivore species in Europe, but tissue pathological changes were not commonly described. The Grey wolf (<i>Canis lupus</i>) has been ex...

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Main Authors: Marco Bregoli, Stefano Pesaro, Martina Ustulin, Denis Vio, Paola Beraldo, Marco Galeotti, Monia Cocchi, Laura Lucchese, Cristina Bertasio, Maria Beatrice Boniotti, Luca Lapini, Alda Natale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Subjects:
<i>Leptospira</i>
<i>Canis lupus</i>
zoonosis
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/5/2512

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