Shepherd A J, Leman P A, Barnett R J
J Hyg (Lond). 1982 Aug;89(1):79-87. doi: 10.1017/s002217240007056x.
Four thousand, five hundred and sixteen rodents of 27 species were captured in widely separated localities in South Africa over a period of ten years. Samples of spleen, lung, heart, liver and rectal tissue with faeces were tested for the presence of zoonotic bacteria and 109 isolations of Pasteurella pneumotropica were made from 11 species. Latent infection with the organism was found to be widespread although there were temporal fluctuations in prevalence. Field and laboratory evidence suggest that P. pneumotropica may be associated with, but not the primary cause of, rodent epizootics in the wild.
在十年时间里,在南非广泛分布的不同地点捕获了27个物种的4516只啮齿动物。采集了脾脏、肺、心脏、肝脏和直肠组织样本以及粪便,检测其中人畜共患病细菌的存在情况,从11个物种中分离出109株嗜肺巴斯德杆菌。尽管该病原体的感染率存在时间波动,但发现其潜伏感染广泛存在。野外和实验室证据表明,嗜肺巴斯德杆菌可能与野生啮齿动物的 epizootics 有关,但不是其主要原因。 (注:epizootics 这个词在医学专业里一般指动物流行病,这里直接保留英文未翻译,因为不确定是否有更准确的中文术语与之完全对应,可根据具体专业情况进一步斟酌。)