SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ANIMAL HEALTH
Francisella tularensis occurs naturally in certain ecosystems. It can cause large epidemics among hares and rodents. The role of tularaemia as a population- r egulating factor for small rodents is often considered to be beneficial.
Tularaemia rarely occurs among domestic animals or in zoological collections. Among domestic animals, sheep and cats are infected most frequently1-7). Outbreaks generally occur among sheep in spring, in the lambing season. The result of tularaemia infection of dogs and cats varies from an absence of clinical disease, to death. These pet animals can be involved in the transmission of tularaemia by bringing infected ticks into the household. Mechanical transfer of F. tularensis to people occurs from the contaminated mouths and claws of these pets that have recently fed on diseased rodents or hares. Zoo primates hunt and consume small prey species such as rodents that enter their enclosures and may contract tularaemia from their prey.
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