title: Wildlife Plague Surveillance Near the China-Kazakhstan Border: 2012-2015.
abstract: Plague is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This pathogen can be transmitted by fleas and has an enzootic cycle, circulating among small mammals, and occasionally epizootic cycles, infecting other species. In China, infected wild rodents are primarily reservoirs of Y. Pestis and are related to human infection (Int. J. Infect. Dis., 33, 2015 and 67; BMC Microbiol., 9, 2009 and 205). Because shepherd dogs prey on and eat rodents (e.g. marmots and mice), they are valuable sentinel animals for plague serosurveillance in endemic disease foci, although their infections are usually asymptomatic (Vet. Microbiol., 172, 2014 and 339).
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China.
authors.forename: S-S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Endemic Diseases, Wenquan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wenquan, China.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pulati
authors.affiliation: Center of Technology, Alashankou Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Alashankou, China.
authors.forename: X-P
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: Department of Sterilization & Harmful Bionts, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Urumqi, China.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
authors.forename: B-J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China.
authors.forename: C-F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China.
authors.forename: Y-Z
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D004285:Dogs; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring / Q000662:veterinary*; D008392:Marmota; D010930:Plague / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D012589:Sciuridae; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance / Q000662:veterinary*; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
keywords: 
  MLVA
  ; 
  Marmota baibacina
  ; 
  Yersinia pestis
  ; China-Kazakhstan border; bacterial isolation