Volume 10, Number 3—March 2004
Dispatch
First Reported Prairie Dog–to-Human Tularemia Transmission, Texas, 2002
Table 1
Location | Species | No. animals tested | Confirmed positivea |
---|---|---|---|
Facility A |
Prairie dogs |
163 |
61 |
Retrieved from other Texas facilities |
Prairie dogs |
7 |
1 |
Czech Republic |
Prairie dogs |
6 |
1 |
Trapper facility, TX |
Prairie dogs |
8 |
0 |
Trapper facility, SD |
Prairie dogs |
2 |
0 |
Michigan |
Prairie dogs |
2 |
0 |
Facility A |
Chinchilla, sugarglider, hedgehog, red squirrel, eastern chipmunk |
16 |
0 |
Field investigation, Mellette County, SD | Prairie dogs, deer mice, white-footed mice, grasshopper mice, ground squirrel, jack rabbit, meadow vole | 90 | 0 |
aPrairie dogs were confirmed positive on recovery of an isolate with characteristic growth on cysteine heart agar with 9% chocolatized blood and positive testing of the isolate by direct fluorescent antibody or polymerase chain reaction.
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