House Mice as a Real Sanitary Threat of Human and Animal Leptospirosis: Proposal for Integrated Management.

ABSTRACT: Leptospirosis is a reemerging zoonosis and ranges in severity from benign to sometimes fatal. In cattle, infection may be responsible for abortion and infertility cases causing economic losses. Humans may be contaminated through direct contact with urine of infected animals or indirectly though interaction with urine-contaminated environment. Many wildlife species living close to cattle, especially commensal rodents may play a role in the transmission of leptospires. Because little is known on the epidemiology of nonmaintenance Leptospira serovars, appropriate management is still limited. On a French farm where human and cattle leptospirosis were detected, the transmission cycle was explored to propose appropriate mitigation measures. For that, commensal rodents present on the farm

SUBMITTER: Marquez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6612401 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature