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
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...
Published in: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967383/ https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052512 |