TY - JOUR AU - Jansen, Andreas AU - Luge, Enno AU - Guerra, Beatriz AU - Wittschen, Petra AU - Gruber, Achim D. AU - Loddenkemper, Christoph AU - Schneider, Thomas AU - Lierz, Michael AU - Ehlert, Derk AU - Appel, Bernd AU - Stark, Klaus AU - Nöckler, Karsten T1 - Leptospirosis in Urban Wild Boars, Berlin, Germany T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 739 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We found antibodies to leptospires in 25 (18%) of 141 wild boars from Berlin (95% confidence interval 12–25). Seropositivity was associated with chronic interstitial nephritis (odds ratio 10.5; p = 0.01), and leptospires were detected in kidney tissues. Wild boars represent a potential source for human leptospirosis in urban environments. KW - Leptospirosis KW - Sus scrofa KW - urban KW - wildlife KW - zoonoses KW - dispatch KW - Germany DO - 10.3201/eid1305.061302 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/5/06-1302_article ER - End of Reference