Sentences with phrase «infected wild rodents»

If the Wisconsin family's prairie dog had escaped, it might have infected wild rodents, thereby creating a permanent U.S. - based reservoir for the monkeypox virus.

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Since exposure to wild birds and rodents is how these birds will pick up Salmonella, longer life with less biosecurity translates to a much higher likelihood that the flock is infected.

A team led by parasitologist Stefan Kappe at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle in Washington gave a rodent version of this «genetically attenuated parasite,» or GAP, to mice and showed that they were completely protected when later infected with an unmodified — or wild - type — version of the same Plasmodium strain.

Dogs can catch Leptospira bacteria from water or soil that is contaminated with infected urine from rodents and other wild animals.