Journal:   Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Title: Prevalence of Escherichia albertii in raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Japan. 

Authors:  Atsushi Hinenoya, Keigo Nagano, Sharda Prasad Awasthi, Noritoshi Hatanaka and Shinji Yamasaki*

Abstract: Natural reservoirs of Escherichia albertii remain unclear. In this study, we detected E. albertii by PCR in 248 (57.7%) of 430 raccoons from Osaka, Japan, and isolated 143 E. albertii strains from the 62 PCR-positive samples. These data indicate that raccoons could be a natural reservoir of E. albertii in Japan.

新興腸管感染症細菌Escherichia albertiiの自然宿主がアライグマである可能性を見出した世界初の研究成果です。