High prevalence and genetic diversity of Treponema paraluisleporidarum isolates in European lagomorphs

• Published in: Microbiology Spectrum
• Main Authors: Knauf, Sascha, Hisgen, Linda, Ågren, Erik O., Barlow, Alexander M., Faehndrich, Marcus, Voigt, Ulrich, Fischer, Luisa, Grillová, Linda, Hallmaier-Wacker, Luisa K., Kik, Marja J. L., Klink, Jana C., Křenová, Jitka, Lavazza, Antonio, Lüert, Simone, Nováková, Markéta, Čejková, Darina, Pacioni, Carlo, Trogu, Tiziana, Šmajs, David, Roos, Christian
• Other Authors: Faucher, Sébastien P., Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Czech Science Foundation, National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024
• Subjects: Hare Mountain; mountain hare
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01774-23; https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.01774-23

ABSTRACT The bacterium Treponema paraluisleporidarum causes syphilis in lagomorphs. In a set of 1,095 samples from four species—European brown hare, mountain hare, Corsican hare, and European rabbit—we tested for infection and genotyped the strains that infect wild lagomorphs. Samples originate from...