Novel insights into serodiagnosis and epidemiology of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a newly recognized pathogen in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus).

Muskoxen are a key species of Arctic ecosystems and are important for food security and socio-economic well-being of many Indigenous communities in the Arctic and Subarctic. Between 2009 and 2014, the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae was isolated for the first time in this species in associati...

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Published in:PLOS ONE
Main Authors: Mavrot, Fabien, Orsel, Karin, Hutchins, Wendy, Adams, Layne G, Beckmen, Kimberlee, Blake, John E, Checkley, Sylvia L, Davison, Tracy, Di Francesco, Juliette, Elkin, Brett, Leclerc, Lisa-Marie, Schneider, Angela, Tomaselli, Matilde, Kutz, Susan J
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2020
Subjects:
Arctic
Canada
muskox
ovibos moschatus
Subarctic
Alaska
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231724
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32315366
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7173868/
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Summary:Muskoxen are a key species of Arctic ecosystems and are important for food security and socio-economic well-being of many Indigenous communities in the Arctic and Subarctic. Between 2009 and 2014, the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae was isolated for the first time in this species in association with multiple mortality events in Canada and Alaska, raising questions regarding the spatiotemporal occurrence of the pathogen and its potential impact on muskox populations.

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