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Research

• Age- and Gender-Specific Differences in Lyme Disease Health-Related Behaviors, Ontario, Canada, 2015–2022
  J. A. Adams et al.
• Temporal Characterization of Prion Shedding in Secreta of White-Tailed Deer in Longitudinal Study of Chronic Wasting Disease, United States
  N. D. Denkers et al.
• One Health Investigation into Mpox and Pets, United States
  C. N. Morgan et al. View Abstract

  Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is zoonotic and capable of infecting many mammal species. However, whether common companion animals are susceptible to MPXV infection is unclear. During July 2022–March 2023, we collected animal and environmental swab samples within homes of confirmed human mpox case-patients and tested for MPXV and human DNA by PCR. We also used ELISA for orthopoxvirus antibody detection. Overall, 12% (22/191) of animal and 25% (14/56) of environmental swab samples from 4 households, including samples from 4 dogs and 1 cat, were positive for MPXV DNA, but we did not detect viable MPXV or orthopoxvirus antibodies. Among MPXV PCR-positive swab samples, 82% from animals and 93% the environment amplified human DNA with a statistically significant correlation in observed cycle threshold values. Our findings demonstrate likely DNA contamination from the human mpox cases. Despite the high likelihood for exposure, however, we found no indications that companion animals were infected with MPXV.

• Associations between Minority Health Social Vulnerability Index Scores, Rurality, and Histoplasmosis Incidence, Eight U.S. States
  D. J. Smith et al.
• Population Structure and Antimicrobial Resistance in Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli Isolated from Humans with Diarrhea and Poultry, East Africa
  N. P. French et al.
• Rapid Increase in Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi Antibodies Among Dogs, Northwestern North Carolina, USA, 2017–2021
  P. K. Pretsch et al.
• Pathogenicity of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses Isolated from Cats in Mice and Ferrets, South Korea, 2023
  I. Kim et al.
• Economic Analysis of National Program for Hepatitis C Elimination, Israel, 2023
  Y. Dadon et al.
• Evidence of Lineage 1 and 3 West Nile Virus in Person with Neuroinvasive Disease, Nebraska, United States, 2023
  E. Davis et al.

Dispatches

• Dengue Virus Serotype 3 Origins and Genetic Dynamics, Jamaica
  S. A. Redman et al.
• Circovirus Hepatitis in an Immunocompromised Patient, Switzerland
  B. Hamelin et al.
• OXA-484-Producing Enterobacterales, France, 2018–2023
  C. Emeraud et al.
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Virus in Wild Migratory Birds, Qinghai Lake, China, 2022
  X. Zhang et al.
• Investigation of Case of Human Francisella tularensis Infection, United Kingdom, 2023
  A. Thompson et al.

Research Letters

• Fatal Renal Abscess Caused by Porphyromonas gingivalis and Subcapsular Hemorrhage, Japan
  Y. Atagi et al.
• Challenges from Migration of Amblyomma maculatum Ticks and Rickettsia parkeri into the Northeastern United States
  G. Molaei et al.
• SARS-CoV-2 and Other Coronaviruses in Rats, Berlin, Germany, 2023
  K. Wernike et al.
• Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Caused by Pasteurella dagmatis
  F. A. Rottmann et al.

Synopsis

• Role of Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Program in Pandemic Preparedness and Response, United States
  K. Creppage et al.

Research

• Molecular Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria among Refugees from Afghanistan in 2 US Military Hospitals during Operation Allies Refuge, 2021
  C. Anderson et al.

Research Letter

• Epidemiology of Streptococcus pyogenes Disease Before, During, and After COVID-19 Pandemic, Germany, 2005–2023
  I. Burckhardt and F. Burckhardt

Dispatch

• Mycobacterium leprae in Nine-Banded Armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus), Ecuador
  D. Romero-Alvarez et al.