Tularemia Outbreaks in Spain from 2007 to 2020 in Humans and Domestic and Wild Animals

In this study, tularemia outbreaks associated with humans and several domestic and wild animals (Iberian hares, wild rabbits, voles, mice, grey shrews, sheep, dogs, foxes, wolves, ticks, and river crayfish) are reported in Spain from 2007 to 2020. Special attention was paid to the outbreaks in human...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pathogens (Basel) 2021-07, Vol.10 (7), p.892
Hauptverfasser: Mínguez-González, Olga, Gutiérrez-Martín, César-Bernardo, Martínez-Nistal, María del Carmen, Esquivel-García, María del Rosario, Gómez-Campillo, José-Ignacio, Collazos-Martínez, Jesús-Ángel, Fernández-Calle, Luis-Miguel, Ruiz-Sopeña, Cristina, Tamames-Gómez, Sonia, Martínez-Martínez, Sonia, Caminero-Saldaña, Constantino, Hernández, Marta, Rodríguez-Lázaro, David, Rodríguez-Ferri, Elías-Fernando
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Zusammenfassung:In this study, tularemia outbreaks associated with humans and several domestic and wild animals (Iberian hares, wild rabbits, voles, mice, grey shrews, sheep, dogs, foxes, wolves, ticks, and river crayfish) are reported in Spain from 2007 to 2020. Special attention was paid to the outbreaks in humans in 2007–2009 and 2014–2015, when the most important waves occurred. Moreover, positive rates of tularemia in lagomorphs were detected in 2007–2010, followed by negative results in 2011–2013, before again returning to positive rates in 2014 and in 2017 and in 2019–2020. Lagomorphs role in spreading Francisella tularensis in the epidemiological chain could not be discarded. F. tularensis is described for the first time infecting the shrew Crocidura russula worldwide, and it is also reported for the first time infecting wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Spain. Serological positives higher than 0.4% were seen for sheep only from 2007–2009 and again in 2019, while serological rates greater than 1% were revealed in dogs in 2007–2008 and in wild canids in 2016. F. tularensis were detected in ticks in 2009, 2014–2015, 2017, and 2019. Lastly, negative results were achieved for river crayfish and also in environmental water samples from 2007 to 2020.
ISSN:2076-0817
2076-0817
DOI:10.3390/pathogens10070892