TY - JOUR AU - Hinenoya, Atsushi AU - Nagano, Keigo AU - Awasthi, Sharda AU - Hatanaka, Noritoshi AU - Yamasaki, Shinji T1 - Prevalence of Escherichia albertii in Raccoons (Procyon lotor), Japan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 6 SP - 1304 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Natural reservoirs of Escherichia albertii remain unclear. In this study, we detected E. albertii by PCR in 248 (57.7%) of 430 raccoons from Osaka, Japan, and isolated 143 E. albertii strains from the 62 PCR-positive samples. These data indicate that raccoons could be a natural reservoir of E. albertii in Japan. KW - Escherichia albertii KW - reservoir KW - raccoon KW - bacteria KW - Japan KW - zoonoses KW - enteric infections DO - 10.3201/eid2606.191436 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/19-1436_article ER - End of Reference