Environmental Exposure of Wild Carnivores to Zoonotic Pathogens: Leptospira Infection in the First Free Living Wolf (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758) Found Dead in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region

• Published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Main Authors: Marco Bregoli, Stefano Pesaro, Martina Ustulin, Denis Vio, Paola Beraldo, Marco Galeotti, Monia Cocchi, Laura Lucchese, Cristina Bertasio, Maria Beatrice Boniotti, Luca Lapini, Alda Natale
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Leptospira; Canis lupus; zoonosis; Pomona
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052512

Leptospirosis is a worldwide-spread zoonosis causing disease and death in dogs and in humans. A Leptospiral infection has been recorded in several wild carnivore species in Europe, but tissue pathological changes were not commonly described. The Grey wolf (Canis lupus) has been expanding its distrib...