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Volume 26, Number 6—June 2020
Dispatch

Prevalence of Escherichia albertii in Raccoons (Procyon lotor), Japan

Atsushi Hinenoya, Keigo Nagano, Sharda P. Awasthi, Noritoshi Hatanaka, and Shinji YamasakiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

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Table 1

Prevalence of Escherichia albertii in Japanese wild raccoon fecal specimens and number of isolates

Sampling year and month No. specimens No. (%) PCR positive No. specimens from which
E. albertii was isolated No. 
E. albertii isolates
2016
Jun 57 25 (43.9) 7 17
Jul 55 34 (61.8) 4 8
Aug 22 14 (63.6) 0 0
Sep 7 2 (28.6) 0 0
Oct 8 3 (37.5) 0 0
Dec
14
7 (50.0)
0
0
2017
Feb 3 2 (66.7) 0 0
Mar 16 3 (18.8) 0 0
Jul 88 56 (63.6) 14 21
Aug 104 63 (60.6) 21 56
Sep
56
39 (69.6)
16
41
Total 430 248 (57.7) 62 143

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