Transboundary Spread of Brucella canis through Import of Infected Dogs, the Netherlands, November 2016-December 2018

Marloes van Dijk; Marc Y Engelsma; Vanessa X N Visser; Ingrid Keur; Marjolijn E Holtslag; Nicole Willems; Björn P Meij; Peter T J Willemsen; Jaap A Wagenaar; Hendrik I J Roest; Els M Broens

doi:10.3201/eid2707.201238

Transboundary Spread of Brucella canis through Import of Infected Dogs, the Netherlands, November 2016-December 2018

Marloes van Dijk
, Marc Y Engelsma
, Vanessa X N Visser
, Ingrid Keur
, Marjolijn E Holtslag
, Nicole Willems
, Björn P Meij
, Peter T J Willemsen
, Jaap A Wagenaar
, Hendrik I J Roest
, Els M Broens

Clinical Infectiology

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Abstract

Brucella canis had not been isolated in the Netherlands until November 2016, when it was isolated from a dog imported from Romania. Including this case, 16 suspected cases were notified to the authorities during the following 25 months. Of these 16 dogs, 10 were seropositive; tracking investigations found another 8 seropositive littermates. All seropositive animals were rescue dogs imported from Eastern Europe. B. canis was cultured from urine, blood, and other specimens collected from the dogs. Genotyping of isolates revealed clustering by litter and country. Isolating B. canis in urine indicates that shedding should be considered when assessing the risk for zoonotic transmission. This case series proves introduction of B. canis into a country to which it is not endemic through import of infected dogs from B. canis-endemic areas, posing a threat to the naive autochthonous dog population and humans.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1783-1788
Number of pages	6
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	27
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2707.201238
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

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Funding Information:
Surveillance of zoonotic pathogens in companion animals in the Netherlands was funded by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. Confirmation and laboratory work done at Wageningen Bioveterinary Research was financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (project no. WOT-01-002-006.01).

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© 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved.

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van Dijk, M., Engelsma, M. Y., Visser, V. X. N., Keur, I., Holtslag, M. E., Willems, N., Meij, B. P., Willemsen, P. T. J., Wagenaar, J. A., Roest, H. I. J., & Broens, E. M. (2021). Transboundary Spread of Brucella canis through Import of Infected Dogs, the Netherlands, November 2016-December 2018. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27(7), 1783-1788. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2707.201238

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