Prevalence of Escherichia albertii in Raccoons (Procyon lotor), Japan

Prevalence of Escherichia albertii in Raccoons (Procyon lotor), Japan

Natural reservoirs of Escherichia albertii remain unclear. In this study, we detected E. albertii by PCR in 248 (57.7%) of 430 raccoons from Osaka, Japan, and isolated 143 E. albertii strains from the 62 PCR-positive samples. These data indicate that raccoons could be a natural reservoir of E. alber...

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Main Authors: Atsushi Hinenoya, Keigo Nagano, Sharda P. Awasthi, Noritoshi Hatanaka, Shinji Yamasaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Escherichia albertii
reservoir
raccoon
bacteria
Japan
zoonoses
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/19-1436_article

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