WFSC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Antibody, Necrosis, Rodent
13 Apr 2017
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Swamp fever, mud fever, autmun fever, hemorrhagic jaundice. 240+ pathogenic strains that have yet to be differentiated. Many types of wildlife and domestic animals can harbor and transmit this bacerium via urine. Increased rainfall or odding can cause an outbreak by spreading organisms throughout the environment. Endemic to warm, tropical environments but is more prevalent in the spring and summer. Infection to humans varies and is dependent upon occupation and living conditions. Can infect many mammals including humans but few species are resistant to it - including cats. Adolf weil recorded the symptoms to be jaundice, fever, hemorrhage and kidney failure. Hard to diagnose animals and humans due to lack of diagnostic testing so many patients are not treated properly. Humans are also unaware of animals having the bacterial disease due to the lack of external gross lesions disease due to the lack of external gross lesions.
