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: Bregoli, Marco, Pesaro, Stefano, Ustulin, Martina, Vio, Denis, Beraldo, Paola, Galeotti, Marco, Cocchi, Monia, Lucchese, Laura, Bertasio, Cristina, Boniotti, Maria Beatrice, Lapini, Luca, Natale, Alda
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: Communication; Pomona; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967383/; 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...