1. High Prevalence and Species Diversity of Helicobacter spp. Detected in Wild House Mice
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Josef Bryja, Dagmar Čížková, Heidi C. Hauffe, Jana Albrechtová, Jaroslav Piálek, and Wasimuddin
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DNA, Bacterial ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Animals, Wild ,Public Health Microbiology ,DNA, Ribosomal ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Helicobacter Infections ,Mice ,Helicobacter ,RNA, Ribosomal, 16S ,Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA ,Prevalence ,Animals ,Cluster Analysis ,Phylogeny ,High prevalence ,Ecology ,biology ,Coinfection ,Species diversity ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,Helicobacter rodentium ,House mice ,Food Science ,Biotechnology - Abstract
PCR diagnostics detected 100% prevalence of Helicobacter in 425 wild house mice ( Mus musculus ) from across central Europe. Of seven species identified, the five most frequent were Helicobacter rodentium (78%), H. typhlonius (53%), H. hepaticus (41%), H. bilis (30%), and H. muridarum (1%). Double infections were more common (42%) than single (30%) and triple (21%) infections. Wild house mice could be considered potential reservoirs of Helicobacter strains for both humans and other vertebrates.
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- 2012