Jing Xue, Si-Si Chen, Ze-Yun Xu, Fang-Ni Wang, Jiangli Wang, Danhong Diao, Luanying Du, Guang-Cheng Xie, Wen-Ping Guo
Rodents have been confirmed as hosts of various vector-borne zoonotic pathogens and are important for the maintenance of these microbes in nature. However, surveillance for zoonotic pathogens is limited for many wild rodent species in China, so our knowledge of pathogen ecology, genetic diversity, and the risk of cross-species transmission to humans is limited. In this study, 165 spleen samples of Daurian ground squirrels ( Spermophilus dauricus ) were collected from Weichang Manchu and the Mongolian Autonomous County of Hebei Province, China, and Rickettsia , Bartonella , and Anaplasma were identified by DNA detection using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)...
2024: Frontiers in Microbiology