Bernasovskaia E P, Kondratenko V N, Mel'nitskaia E V, Lukach I G
Mikrobiol Z. 1997 Mar-Apr;59(2):90-5.
The capacity of leptospiras to get acclimated in the organism of unusual hosts has been studied. Cultures of Icterohaemorrhagiae from musquashes, house mice and field voles have been isolated of leptospirosis sources under intensive epizootics among rats. A possibility to reproduce Leptospira carrying by the cultures of leptospirae of serogroup icterohaemorrhagiae in musquashes and water voles has been shown. One can conclude that under icterohemorrhagic leptospirosis musquashes and water voles can take the part of additional source of infection but they cannot independently preserve leptospirae in nature as a biological species grey rats being their main hosts.
已经研究了钩端螺旋体在异常宿主机体中适应的能力。在大鼠中发生强烈动物流行病期间，从麝鼠、家鼠和田鼠身上分离出黄疸出血型钩端螺旋体培养物，这些动物是钩端螺旋体病的来源。已经证明，黄疸出血血清群钩端螺旋体培养物能够在麝鼠和水田鼠体内繁殖并携带钩端螺旋体。可以得出结论，在黄疸出血型钩端螺旋体病流行期间，麝鼠和水田鼠可作为额外的传染源，但作为其主要宿主的灰鼠是生物物种，麝鼠和水田鼠无法在自然界中独立保存钩端螺旋体。
