Raccoons and skunks as sentinels for enzootic tularemia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1019-1021

  Berrada, Zenda L ^a,b   Goethert, Heidi K ^a,b   Telford III, Sam R ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; LAGOMORPH; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RACCOON; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TULAREMIA; UNITED STATES; VINEYARD;

EID: 33744899097     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1206.05879     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Feldman KA, Enscore RE, Lathrop SL, Matyas BT, McGuill M, Schriefer ME, et al. An outbreak of primary pneumonic tularemia on Martha's Vineyard. N Engl J Med. 2001;345:1601-6.
2. Teutsch SM, Martone WJ, Brink EW, Potter ME, Eliot G, Hoxsie R, et al. Pneumonic tularemia on Martha's Vineyard. N Engl J Med. 1979;301:826-8.
3. Feldman KA, Stiles-Enos D, Julian K, Matyas BT, Telford SR III, Chu MC, et al. Tularemia on Martha's Vineyard: seroprevalence and occupational risk. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003;9:350-4.
4. Brown SL, McKinney FT, Klein GC, Jones WL. Evaluation of a safranin-O stained antigen microagglutination test for Francisella tularensis antibodies. J Clin Microbiol. 1980;11:146-8.
5. Bigler WJ, Jenkins JH, Cumbie PM, Hoff GL, Prather EC. Wildlife and environmental health: raccoons as indicators of zoonoses and pollutants in southeastern United States. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1975;167:592-7.
6. Goethert HK, Shani I, Telford SR III. Genotypic diversity of Francisella tularensis infecting Dermacentor variabilis ticks on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. J Clin Microbiol. 2004;42:4968-73.
7. Hopla CE. The ecology of tularemia. Adv Vet Sci Comp Med. 1974;18:25-53.
8. Parker RR, Spencer RR. Hereditary transmission of tularemia infection by the wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni Stiles. Public Health Rep. 1926;41:1403-7.
9. Jellison WL. Tularemia in North America. Missoula (MT): University of Montana Press; 1974.
10. Shoemaker D, Woolf A, Kirkpatrick R, Cooper M. Humoral immune response of cottontail rabbits naturally infected with Francisella tularensis in southern Illinois. J Wildl Dis. 1997;33:733-7.
11. Downs CM, Buchele L, Edgar EP. Studies on pathogenesis and immunity in tularemia. I. The pathogenesis of tularemia in the white rat. J Immunol. 1949;63:117-33.
12. Francis E, Mayne B. Tularemia Francis 1921: II. Experimental transmission by the fly, Chrysops discalis. Public Health Rep. 1921;36:1738-46.
13. Eng TR, Wilson ML, Spielman A, Lastavica CC. Greater risk of Borrelia burgdorferi infection in dogs than in people. J Infect Dis. 1988;158:1410-1.