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The monitoring of selected zoonotic diseases of wildlife in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy

Simone Magnino,Matteo Frasnelli,Massimo Fabbi,Alessandro Bianchi,Maria Grazia Zanoni,Giuseppe Merialdi+2 more-2011-01-01-Wageningen Academic Publishers eBooks
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SummarySeveral zoonotic agents that infect wildlife may be transmitted to humans through contaminated game meat. Toxoplasma gondii and Trichinella spp. infect the muscular tissue at some stage of their biological cycle and consequently contaminate meat, while enteric bacteria (e.g. Salmonella spp., verocytotoxic Escherichia coli (VTEC), Yersinia enterocolitica) may contaminate the carcase after the animal’s death when the intestine is ruptured by shot pellets or during evisceration. Gutting and skinning of carcases may lead to contamination of humans with Mycobacterium bovis, Brucella spp., and Francisella tularensis, the etiological agents of bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis and tularaemia, respectively. We report here the occurrence of the above mentioned organisms over a 5-year period in some species of wild mammals of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. Trichinellae were recovered in 0.15% and 0.13% of samples from red foxes and wild boars, respectively. Antibodies to T. g

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SummarySeveral zoonotic agents that infect wildlife may be transmitted to humans through contaminated game meat. Toxoplasma gondii and Trichinella spp. infect the muscular tissue at some stage of their biological cycle and consequently contaminate meat, while enteric bacteria (e.g. Salmonella spp., verocytotoxic Escherichia coli (VTEC), Yersinia enterocolitica) may contaminate the carcase after the animal’s death when the intestine is ruptured by shot pellets or during evisceration. Gutting and skinning of carcases may lead to contamination of humans with Mycobacterium bovis, Brucella spp., and Francisella tularensis, the etiological agents of bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis and tularaemia, respectively. We report here the occurrence of the above mentioned organisms over a 5-year period in some species of wild mammals of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. Trichinellae were recovered in 0.15% and 0.13% of samples from red foxes and wild boars, respectively. Antibodies to T. g

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BiologyWild boarRoe deerYersinia enterocoliticaVeterinary medicineFrancisella tularensisZoonosisSalmonella

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