Long-term dynamics of Mycoplasma conjunctivae at the wildlife-livestock interface in the Pyrenees.

ABSTRACT: Functional roles of domestic and wild host populations in infectious keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) epidemiology have been extensively discussed claiming a domestic reservoir for the more susceptible wild hosts, however, based on limited data. With the aim to better assess IKC epidemiology in complex host-pathogen alpine systems, the long-term infectious dynamics and molecular epidemiology of Mycoplasma conjunctivae was investigated in all host populations from six study areas in the Pyrenees and one in the Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain). Detection of M. conjunctivae was performed by qPCR on 3600 eye swabs collected during seven years from hunted wild ungulates and sympatric domestic sheep (n = 1800 animals), and cluster analyses of the strains were performed including previous reported

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Aguilar X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5633175 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature