BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL INFECTIONS

General Bibliography for Bacterial and Fungal Infections

Frisk, C.S. (1987) Bacterial and mycotic diseases. In: Laboratory Hamsters (eds. G.L. Van Hoosier, Jr.& C.W. McPherson), pp.

Frisk, C.S. (2012) Bacterial and fungal diseases. In: The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents (eds. M.A. Suckow, K.A. Stevens, & R.P. Wilson), pp. 797-820. Academic Press, New York.

Hagen, C.A., Shefner, A.M., & Ehrlich, R. (1965) Intestinal microflora of normal hamsters. Laboratory Animal Care 15:185-193.

Renshaw, H.W., Van Hoosier, G.L., & Amend, N.D. (1975) A survey of naturally occurring diseases of the Syrian hamster. Laboratory Animals 9:179-191.

Bacterial Enteric Infections

Campylobacter jejuni Infection

Fox, J.G., Hering, A.M., Ackerman, J.I., & Taylor, N.S. (1983) The pet hamster as a potential reservoir of human Campylobacteriosis. Journal of Infectious Diseases 147:784.

Fox, J.G., Zanotti, S., Jordan, H.V., & Murphy, J.C. (1986) Coloni­zation of Syrian hamsters with streptomycin resistant Campylo­bacter jejuni. Laboratory Animal Science 36:28-31.

Humphrey, C.D., Montag, D.M., & Pittman, F.E. (1985) Experi­mental infection of hamsters with Campylobacter jejuni. Journal of Infectious Diseases 151:485-493.

Humphrey, C.D., Montag, D.M., & Pittman, F.E. (1986) Morpho­logic observations of experimental Campylobacter jejuni infec­tion in the hamster intestinal tract. American Journal of Pathology 122:152-159.

Lentsch, R.H., McLaughlin, R.M., & Wagner, J.E. (1982) Campylo­bacter fetus ssp. jejuni isolated from Syrian hamsters with prolif­erative ileitis. Laboratory Animal Science 32:511-514.

Clostridium spp. Enterotoxemia

Alworth, L., Simmons, J., Franklin, C., & Fish, R. (2009) Clostridial typhlitis associated with topical antibiotic therapy in a Syrian hamster.

Barthold, S.W. & Jacoby, R.O. (1978) An outbreak of cecal mucosal hyperplasia in hamsters. Laboratory Animal Science 28:723-727.

Bartlett, J.G., Chang, T.W., Moon, N., & Onderdonk, A.B. (1978) Antibiotic-induced lethal enterocolitis in hamsters: studies with eleven agents and evidence to support the pathogenic role of toxin-producing Clostridia. American Journal of Veterinary Research 39:1525-1530.

Blankenship-Paris, T.L., Chang, J., Dalldorf, F.G., & Gilligan, P.H. (1995) In vivo and in vitro studies of Clostridium difficile-induced disease in hamsters fed an atherogenic, high-fat diet. Laboratory Animal Science 45:47-53.

Eastwood, K., Else, P., Charlett, A., & Wilcox, M. (2009) Compari­son of nine commercially available Clostridium difficile toxin detection assays, a real-time PCR assay for Clostridium difficile tcdB, and a glutamate dehydrogenase detection assay to cyto- toxigenic culture methods. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 47:3211-3217.

Hawkins, C.C., Buggy, B.P., Fekety, R., & Schaberg, D.R. (1984) Epidemiology of colitis induced by Clostridium difficile in ham­sters: application of bacteriophage and bacteriocin typing sys­tem. Journal of Infectious Diseases 149:775-780.

Iaconis, J.P. & Rolfe, R.D. (1986) Clostridium difficile-associated ileocecitis in clindamycin-treated infant hamsters. Current Microbiology 13:327-332.

Keel, M.K. & Songer, J.G. (2006) The comparative pathology of Clostridium difficile-associated disease. Veterinary Pathology 43:225-240.

Rehg, J.E. (1997) Clostridial enteropathies, hamster. In: Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals: Digestive System, 2nd edn (eds. T.C. Jones, J.A. Popp, & U. Mohr), pp. 396-403. Springer, New York.

Rehg, J.E. & Lu, Y.-S. (1982) Clostridium difficile typhlitis in hamsters not associated with antibiotic therapy. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 181:1422-1423.

Ryden, E.B., Lipman, N.S., Taylor, N.S., Ross, R., & Fox, J.G.

Small, J.D. (1987) Drugs used in hamsters with a review of anti­biotic-associated colitis. In: Laboratory Hamsters (eds. G.L. Van Hoosier, Jr.& C.W. McPherson), pp. 179-199. Academic Press, New York.

Wilson, K.H., Silva, J., & Fekety, F.R. (1981) Suppression of Clostrid­ium difficile by hamster cecal flora and prevention of antibiotic- associated cecitis. Infection and Immunity 34:626-628.

Clostridium piliforme Infection

Feldman, S.H., Kiavand, A., Seidelin, M., & Reiske, H.R. (2006) Ribosomal RNA sequences of Clostridium piliforme isolated from rodent and rabbit: re-examining the phylogeny of the Tyzzer's disease agent and development of a diagnostic poly­merase chain reaction assay. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 45:65-73.

Franklin, C.L., Motzel, S.L., Besch-Williford, C.L., Hook, R.R., & Riley, L.K. (1994) Tyzzer's infection: host specificity of Clostrid­ium piliforme isolates. Laboratory Animal Science 44:568-572.

Motzel, S.L. & Gibson, S.V. (1990) Tyzzer's disease in hamsters and gerbils from a pet store supplier. Journal of the American Veteri­nary Medical Association 197:1176-1178.

Nakayama, M., Machii, K., Goto, Y., & Fujiwara, K. (1976) Typhlo- hepatitis in hamsters infected perorally with Tyzzer's organism. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine 46:309-324.

Takasaki, Y., Oghiso, Y., Sato, K., & Fujiwara, K. (1974) Tyzzer's disease in hamsters. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine 44:267-270.

Waggie, K.S., Thornburg, L.P., Grove, K.J., & Wagner, J.E. (1987) Lesions of experimentally induced Tyzzer's disease in Syrian hamsters, guinea pigs, mice and rats. Laboratory Animals 21:155-160.

Zook, B.C., Huang, K., & Rhorer, R.G. (1977) Tyzzer's disease in Syrian hamsters. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Asso­ciation 171:833-836.

Escherichia coli Infection

Amend, N.K., Loeffler, D.G., Ward, B.C., & Van Hoosier, G.L., Jr.

Frisk, C.S. & Wagner, J.E. (1977) Experimental hamster enteritis: an electron microscopic study. American Journal of Veterinary Research 38:1861-1868.

Frisk, C.S., Wagner, J.E., & Owens, D.R. (1978) Enteropathogenicity of Escherichia coli isolated from hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) with hamster ileitis. Infection and Immunity 20:319-320.

Frisk, C.S., Wagner, J.E., & Owens, D.R. (1981) Hamster (Mesocri- cetus auratus) enteritis caused by epithelial cell-invasive Escher­ichia coli. Infection and Immunity 31:1232-1238.

Helicobacter spp. Infection

Fox, J.G., Shen, Z., Muthupalani, S., Rogers, A.R., Kirchain, S.M., & Dewhirst, F.E. (2009) Chronic hepatitis, hepatic dysplasia, fibro­sis, and biliary hyperplasia in hamsters naturally infected with a novel Helicobacter classified in the H. bilis cluster. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 47:3673-3681.

Franklin, C.L., Beckwith, C.S., Livingston, R.S., Riley, L.K., Gibson, S.V., Besch-Williford, C.L., & Hook, R.R., Jr. (1996) Isolation of a novel Helicobacter species, Helicobacter cholecystus sp. nov., from the gall bladders of Syrian hamsters with cholangiofibrosis and centrilobular pancreatitis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 34:2952-2958.

Gebhart, C.J., Fennell, C.L., Murtaugh, M.P., & Stamm, W.E. (1989) Campylobacter cinaedi is normal intestinal flora in hamsters. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 27:1692-1694.

Nambiar, P.R., Kirchain, S.M., Courmier, K., Xu, S., Taylor, N.S., Theve, E.J., Patterson, M.M., & Fox, J.G. (2006) Progressive proliferative and dysplastic typhlocolitis in aging Syrian ham­sters naturally infected with Helicobacter spp.: a spontaneous model of inflammatory bowel disease. Veterinary Pathology 43:2-14.

Nambiar, P.R., Kirchain, S., & Fox, J.G. (2005) Gastritis-associated adenocarcinoma and intestinal metaplasia in a Syrian hamster naturally infected with Helicobacter species.

Patterson, M.M., Schrenzel, M.D., Feng, Y., & Fox, J.G. (2000) Gastritis and intestinal metaplasia in Syrian hamsters infected with Helicobacter aurati and two other microaerobes. Veterinary Pathology 37:589-596.

Patterson, M.M., Schrenzel, M.D., Feng, Y., Xu, S., Dewhirst, F.E., Paster, B.J., Thibodeau, S.A., Versalovic, J., & Fox, J.G. (2000) Helicobacter aurati sp. nov., a urease-positive Helicobacter species cultured from the gastrointestinal tissues of Syrian hamsters. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38:3722-3728.

Simmons, J.H., Riley, L.K., Besch-Williford, C.L., & Franklin, C.L. (2000) Helicobacter mesocricetorum sp. nov., a novel Helicobacter isolated from the feces of Syrian hamsters. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38:1811-1817.

Whary, M.T. & Fox, J.G. (2004) Natural and experimental Helico­bacter infections. Comparative Medicine 54:128-158.

Lawsonia intracellularis Infection

Boothe, A.D. & Cheville, N.F. (1967) The pathology of proliferative ileitis in the golden hamster. Pathologia Veterinaria 4:31-44.

Cooper, D.M. & Gebhart, C.J. (1998) Comparative aspects of pro­liferative enteritis. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 212:1446-1451.

Davis, A.J. & Jenkins, S.J. (1986) Cryptosporidiosis and proliferative ileitis in a hamster. Veterinary Pathology 23:632-633.

Dillehay, D.L., Paul, K.S., Boosinger, T.R., & Fox, J.G. (1994) Enter­ocolitis associated with Escherichia coli and Campylobacter-like organisms in a hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) colony. Laboratory Animal Science 44:12-16.

Fox, J.G., Dewhirst, F.E., Fraser, J.G., Paster, B.J., Shames, B., & Murphy, J.C. (1994) The intracellular Campylobacter-like orga­nism from ferrets and hamsters with proliferative bowel disease is a Disulfovibrio sp. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 32:1229-1237.

Fox, J.G., Stills, H.F., Paster, B.J., Dewhirst, F.E., Yan, L., Palley, L., & Prostak, K. (1993) Antigenic specificity and morphologic char­acterization of Chlamydia trachomatis, strain SFPD, isolated from hamsters with proliferative ileitis.

Jacoby, R.O. (1978) Transmissible ileal hyperplasia of hamsters. I. Histogenesis and immunohistochemistry. American Journal of Pathology 91:433-450.

Jacoby, R.O. & Johnson, E.A. (1981) Transmissible ileal hyperplasia. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 34:267-289.

Jasni, S., McOrist, S., & Lawson, G.H.K. (1994) Reproduction of proliferative enteritis in hamsters with a pure culture of porcine ileal symbiont intracellularis. Veterinary Microbiology 41:1-9.

Jasni, S., McOrist, S., & Lawson, G.H.K. (1994) Experimentally- induced proliferative enteritis in hamsters: an ultrastructural study. Research in Veterinary Science 56:186-192.

Stills, H.F., Jr. (1991) Isolation of an intracellular bacterium from hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) with proliferative ileitis and reproduction of the disease with pure culture. Infection and Immunity 59:3227-3236.

Salmonella enterica Infection

Innes, J.R.M., Wilson, C., & Ross, M.A. (1956) Epizootic Salmonella enteritidis infection causing pulmonary phlebothrombosis in hamsters. Journal of Infectious Diseases 98:133-141.

Ray, J.P. & Mallick, B.B. (1970) Public health significance of Salmo­nella infections in laboratory animals. Indian Veterinary Journal 47:1033-1037.

Swanson, S.J., Snider, C., Braden, C.R., Boxrud, D., Wunschmann, A., Rudrofff, JA., Lockett, J., & Smith, K.E. (2007) Multidrug­resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium associated with pet rodents. New England Journal of Medicine 356:21-28.

Other Bacterial Infections

Corynebacterium spp. Infections

Amao, H., Akimoto, T., Takahashi, K.W., Nakagawa, M., & Saito, M. (1991) Isolation of Corynebacterium kutscheri from aged Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). Laboratory Animal Science 41:265-268.

Amao, H., Kanamoto, T., Komukai, Y., Takahashi, K.W., Sawada, T., Saito, M., & Sugiyama, M. (1995) Pathogenicity of Coryne- bacterium kutscheri in the Syrian hamster. Journal of Veterinary Medical Science 57:715-719.

Tansey, G., Roy, A.F., & Bivin, W.S. (1995) Acute pneumonia in a Syrian hamster: isolation of a Corynebacterium species. Labora­tory Animal Science 45:366-367.

Francisella tularensis Infection

Centers for Disease Control (2005) Tularemia associated with a hamster bite: Colorado. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 53:1202-1203.

Glyuranecz, M., Denes, B., Rigo, K., Foldvari, G., Szeredi, L., Fodor, L., Alexandra, S., Janosi, K., Erdelyi, K., Krisztalovics, K., & Makrai, L. (2010) Susceptibility of the common hamster (Crice- tus cricetus) to Francisella tularensis and its effect on the epizooti­ology of tularemia in an area where both are endemic. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46:1316-1320.

Perman, V. & Bergeland, M.E. (1967) A tularemia enzootic in a closed hamster breeding colony. Laboratory Animal Care 17:563-568.

Leptospira spp. Infection

Frenkel, J.K. (1972) Infection and immunity in hamsters. Progress in Experimental Tumor Research 16:326-367.

Mycobacterium spp. Infection

Chesterman, F.C. (1972) Background pathology in a colony of golden hamsters. Progress in Experimental Tumor Research 16:51-68.

Chute, R.N., Kenton, H.B., & Sommers, S.C. (1954) A laboratory epidemic of human-type tuberculosis in hamsters. American Journal of Clinical Pathology 24:223-226.

Karbe, E. (1987) Disseminated mycobacteriosis in the golden ham­ster. Zentralblatt fur Veterinarmedizin B 34:391-394.

Pasteurella pneumotropica Infection

Lesher, R.J., Jeszenka, E.V., & Swan, M.E. (1985) Enteritis caused by Pasteurella pneumotropica infection in hamsters. Journal of Clini­cal Microbiology 23:448.

Miscellaneous Bacterial Infections

Frisk, C.S., Wagner, J.E., & Owens, D.R. (1976) Streptococcal mas­titis in golden hamsters. Laboratory Animal Science 26:97.

Huerkamp, M.J. & Dillehay, D.L. (1990) Coliform mastitis in a golden Syrian hamster. Laboratory Animal Science 40:325-327.

Lesher, R.J., Jeszenka, E.V., & Swan, M.E. (1985) Enteritis caused by Pasteurella pneumotropica infection in hamsters. Journal of Clini­cal Microbiology 22:448.

Fungal Infections

Meisser, J., Kinzel, V., & Jirovec, O. (1971) Nosematosis as an accompanying infection of plasmacytoma ascites in Syrian golden hamsters. Pathologia et Microbiologia 37:249-260.

Sebesteny, A. (1979) Syrian hamsters. In: Handbook of Laboratory Animals (eds. J.M. Hime & P.N. O'Donoghue), pp. 111-113. Heinemann Veterinary Books, London.