CERoPath Research Rodents pathogens Bacteria
Diseases | Pathogens | Vectors | Reservoirs | Transmission |
Bartonellosis | Bartonella spp. | Blood-sucking arthropods | Mammals | Indirectly by arthropods. Bacteria finally infect erythrocytes |
Borreliosis (Relapsing fever, tick-borne relapsing fever, spirochetal fever, vagabond fever, famine fever) | Borrelia sp. , mostly Borrelia recurrentis | Ticks: Ornithodros spp. | Rodents | Indirectly, by bite of ticks |
Leptospirosis (Weil’s disease, Haemorrhagic jaundice) | Leptospira interrogans (spirochete), more than 200 serovars | Rodents, pigs, dogs, rabbits, reptiles, livestock, … | Usually transmitted to humans by the urine, get into the body through small skin lesions | |
Melioidosis (Pseudoglanders, Whitmore’s disease) | Burkholderia pseudomallei | Every domestic or wild mammals | Soil, suface water | Humans and animals get directly infected by contact or ingestion of contaminated water or food. Rodents help to spread bacteria |
Plague | Yersinia (Pasteurella) pestis | Rodent fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis ) | Rodents | Indirectly, by bite of fleas |
Rat-bite fever (Streptobacillary fever, Haverhill fever, Sodoku, epidemic arthritic erythema) | Streptobacillus moniliformis (Haverhill fever), Spirillum minus (Sodoku) | Rodents | By bite of infected animals or ingestion of contaminated food | |
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Coxiella burnetii | Eventually ticks | Different domestic and wild mammals | By inhalation of contaminated dust, milk or meat, or by the bite of ticks |
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Rickettsia rickettsii | Ticks, mites | Rodents, dogs, rabbits | Through skin lesions or by bite of ticks |
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Rickettsia acari | Lice | Mice | By lice |
Salmonellosis (Salmonella food poisoning, enteric paratyphosis) | Salmonella spp. | Every animal | By ingestion of contaminated water and food, possible transmission from human to human. | |
Tularaemia (Francis’ disease, deer-fly fever, rabbit fever, O’Hara disease) | Francisella tularensis (can survive several weeks outside) | Blood-sucking arthropods: mites, fleas, ticks, flies, midges, mosquitoes | Rodents, rabbits, ticks, deer, sheep, dogs, cats. | Can be transmitted by vectors or by contact with or ingestion of water, inhalation of dust contaminated with rodents’ faeces, or by contact with infected live animals, their carcasses, or insufficiently cooked meat. |
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