Pedersen K, Pabilonia K L, Anderson T D, Bevins S N, Hicks C R, Kloft J M, Deliberto T J
U.S. Department of Agriculture,Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services,Fort Collins,CO,USA.
Colorado State University,Department of Microbiology,Immunology and Pathology,College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,Fort Collins,CO,USA.
Epidemiol Infect. 2015 Jul;143(10):2131-6. doi: 10.1017/S0950268814003148. Epub 2014 Dec 18.
As feral swine continue to expand their geographical range and distribution across the United States, their involvement in crop damage, livestock predation, and pathogen transmission is likely to increase. Despite the relatively recent discovery of feral swine involvement in the aetiology of a variety of pathogens, their propensity to transmit and carry a wide variety of pathogens is disconcerting. We examined sera from 2055 feral swine for antibody presence to six serovars of Leptospira that can also infect humans, livestock or domestic animals. About 13% of all samples tested positive for at least one serovar, suggesting that Leptospira infection is common in feral swine. Further studies to identify the proportion of actively infected animals are needed to more fully understand the risk they pose.
随着野猪在美国的地理范围和分布持续扩大，它们造成的作物损害、牲畜捕食及病原体传播情况可能会增加。尽管野猪参与多种病原体病因的发现相对较新，但它们传播和携带多种病原体的倾向令人不安。我们检测了2055头野猪的血清，以查找针对六种也可感染人类、牲畜或家畜的钩端螺旋体血清型的抗体。所有检测样本中约13%至少对一种血清型呈阳性，这表明钩端螺旋体感染在野猪中很常见。需要进一步研究来确定活跃感染动物的比例，以便更全面地了解它们所构成的风险。
