Of Mice, Cattle, and Men: A Review of the Eco-Epidemiology of Leptospira borgpetersenii Serovar Ballum

• Published in: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
• Main Authors: Marie Moinet, David A. Wilkinson, Danielle Aberdein, James C. Russell, Emilie Vallée, Julie M. Collins-Emerson, Cord Heuer, Jackie Benschop
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: disease ecology; emerging infectious diseases; infectious disease reservoirs; liaison host; species barrier; wildlife–livestock interface; New Zealand; Pomona; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6040189

In New Zealand (NZ), leptospirosis is a mostly occupational zoonosis, with >66% of the recently notified cases being farm or abattoir workers. Livestock species independently maintain Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo and L. interrogans serovar Pomona, and both are included in livestock va...