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SUBMITTER: Backhans A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9151424 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Backhans A A Jacobson M M Hansson I I Lebbad M M Lambertz S Thisted ST Gammelgård E E Saager M M Akande O O Fellström C C
Epidemiology and infection 20121123 9
A total of 207 wild rodents were caught on nine pig farms, five chicken farms and five non-farm locations in Sweden and surveyed for a selection of bacteria, parasites and viruses. Lawsonia intracellularia and pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica were only detected in rodents on pig farms (9% and 8% prevalence, respectively) which indicate that these agents are more likely to be transmitted to rodents from pigs or the environment on infected farms. Brachyspira hyodysenteriae (1%), Brachyspira inte ...[more]