Prevalence of Escherichia albertii in Raccoons (Procyon lotor), Japan.

ABSTRACT: Natural reservoirs of Escherichia albertii remain unclear. In this study, we detected E. albertii by PCR in 248 (57.7%) of 430 raccoons from Osaka, Japan, and isolated 143 E. albertii strains from the 62 PCR-positive samples. These data indicate that raccoons could be a natural reservoir of E. albertii in Japan.

SUBMITTER: Hinenoya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7258444 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature