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Journal Article
Enteropathogenic Yersinia with Public Health Relevance Found in Dogs and Cats in Finland
2024
Overview
Yersiniosis is a common zoonotic enteric disease among humans, which has been linked to pigs and contaminated food, especially pork. The epidemiology of yersiniosis is still obscure, and studies on yersiniosis in pets are very scarce. In this study, we performed pheno- and genotypic characterisation of 50 Yersinia strains isolated from pets in Finland between 2012 and 2023. Y. enterocolitica 4/O:3/ST135, the most common type in human yersiniosis, was also the most common type (68%) found in clinical faecal samples in our study. Also, human pathogenic Y. enterocolitica 2/O:9/ST139 and Y. pseudotuberculosis O:1/ST9 and O:1/ST42 strains carrying all essential pathogenic genes were identified. Three Y. enterocolitica 4/O:3/ST9 strains were multi-drug-resistant and two of them were highly related, showing one allelic difference (AD) with core genome multi-locus sequence typing. Non-pathogenic, genotypically highly diverse Y. enterocolitica 1A strains, showing more than 1000 ADs and missing the essential virulence genes, were also recognised in dogs and cats. Our study demonstrates that pets can excrete human pathogenic Yersinia in their faeces and may serve as an infection source for human yersiniosis, especially in families with small children in close contact with their pets.
Publisher
MDPI AG
Subject
/ Animals
/ Cats
/ Dogs
/ Feces
/ Finland
/ Genes
/ genome
/ Genomes
/ Genotype
/ Humans
/ Pets
/ pork
/ Swine
/ Virulence Factors - genetics
/ Yersinia
/ Yersinia - isolation & purification
/ Yersinia enterocolitica - genetics
/ Yersinia enterocolitica - isolation & purification
/ Yersinia enterocolitica - pathogenicity
/ Yersinia Infections - epidemiology
/ Yersinia Infections - microbiology
/ Yersinia Infections - veterinary
/ Yersinia pseudotuberculosis - genetics
/ Yersinia pseudotuberculosis - isolation & purification
/ Yersinia pseudotuberculosis - pathogenicity
/ Zoonoses
