Paratuberculosis infection of nonruminant wildlife in Scotland.

摘要: Recent reports of natural paratuberculosis (or Johne's disease) in rabbits, foxes, and stoats has focused debate on the presence importance wildlife reservoirs epidemiology this disease. This paper describes an extensive study investigating 18 nonruminant species for evidence paratuberculosis. Using both culture histopathological analysis, fox, stoat, weasel, crow, rook, jackdaw, rat, wood mouse, hare, badger were found to harbor Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, causative organism suggesting that disease is more complex than previously realized.