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2019
Mass Die-Off of Saiga Antelopes, Kazakhstan, 2015
Autor:in
Fereidouni, Sasan; Freimanis, Graham; Orynbayev, Mukhit; Ribeca, Paolo; Flannery, John; King, Donald; Zuther, Steffen; Beer, Martin; Hoeper, Dirk; Kydyrmanov, Aidyn; Karamendin, Kobey; Kock, Richard A.
Publikationen als Autor:in / Herausgeber:in der Vetmeduni
Abstrakt
In 2015, a mass die-off of approximate to 200,000 saiga antelopes in central Kazakhstan was caused by hemorrhagic septicemia attributable to the bacterium Pasteurella multocida serotype B. Previous analyses have indicated that environmental triggers associated with weather conditions, specifically air moisture and temperature in the region of the saiga antelope calving during the 10-day period running up to the event, were critical to the proliferation of latent bacteria and were comparable to conditions accompanying historically similar die-offs in the same areas. We investigated whether additional viral or bacterial pathogens could be detected in samples from affected animals using 3 different high-throughput sequencing approaches. We did not identify pathogens associated with commensal bacterial opportunisms in blood, kidney, or lung samples and thus concluded that P. multocida serotype B was the primary cause of the disease.
Schlagwörter
Animal Diseasesepidemiologyhistorymicrobiologymortality; Animals; Antelopesmicrobiology; Bacterial Infectionsveterinary; Female; Gammaproteobacteriaclassificationgenetics; Geography, Medical; History, 21st Century; Kazakhstanepidemiology; Male; Metagenomics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16Sgenetics
Dokumententyp
Originalarbeit
CC Lizenz
CCBY
Open Access Type
Gold
ISSN/eISSN
1080-6040 - 1080-6059
10.3201/eid2506.180990
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