In Europe, wild boar populations pose an increasing risk for livestock and humans due to the transmission of animal and zoonotic infectious diseases, such as African swine fever and brucellosis. is widespread among wild boar in many European countries. In The Netherlands the prevalence of among wild boar has not been investigated so far, despite the high number of pig farms and the growing wild boar population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSequence-based typing of has led to insights in the evolutionary developments of tularemia. In Europe, two major basal clades of subsp. exist, with a distinct geographical distribution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Brown rats () may carry pathogens that can be a risk for public health. Brown rats in the Netherlands were tested for the zoonotic pathogens spp. and Seoul hantavirus (SEOV), in order to obtain insight in their prevalence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBrucellosis is a zoonotic disease with terrestrial or marine wildlife animals as potential reservoirs for the disease in livestock and human populations. The primary aim of this study was to assess the presence of Brucella pinnipedialis in marine mammals living along the Dutch coast and to observe a possible correlation between the presence of B. pinnipedialis and accompanying pathology found in infected animals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe presence of Brucella (B.) spp. in harbour porpoises stranded between 2008 and 2011 along the Dutch coast was studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Environ Microbiol
December 2013
Cloacal swabs from carcasses of Dutch wild birds obtained in 2010 and 2011 were selectively cultured on media with cefotaxime to screen for the presence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)/AmpC-producing Escherichia coli. Subsequently, all cefotaxime-resistant E. coli isolates were tested by broth microdilution and microarray.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiseases are an important cause of losses and decreased production rates in freshwater eel farming, and have been suggested to play a contributory role in the worldwide decline in wild freshwater eel stocks. Three commonly detected pathogenic viruses of European eel Anguilla anguilla are the aquabirnavirus eel virus European (EVE), the rhabdovirus eel virus European X (EVEX), and the alloherpesvirus anguillid herpesvirus 1 (AngHV1). In general, all 3 viruses cause a nonspecific haemorrhagic disease with increased mortality rates.
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