ArticleScientific reports2019
Chlamydia pecorum prevalence in South Australian koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) populations: Identification and modelling of a population free from infection.
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- A review of zoonotic chlamydiae species in Africa: assessing their burden and potential impact through One Health perspective.One health outlook · 2025Review
- Evaluation of Chlamydia pecorum major outer membrane protein vaccine a management tool in wild koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) populations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Preliminary Evidence of Chlamydiosis in Koalas of the Greater Geelong Region, Victoria: A Potential Emerging Threat?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- Epidemiology, Transmission Mode, and Pathogenesis ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance Carriage in Koalas (Phascolarctos Cinereus) and Pteropid Bats (Pteropus Poliocephalus) Before, During and After Wildfires.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- Carriage of antibiotic resistance genes to treatments for chlamydial disease in koalas (One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Efficacy of a synthetic peptide Chlamydia pecorum major outer membrane protein vaccine in a wild koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) population.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A retrospective study on antibacterial treatments for koalas infected with Chlamydia pecorum.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Health and Diseases of Koalas.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- An Analysis of Demographic and Triage Assessment Findings in Bushfire-Affected Koalas (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Koala immunogenetics and chlamydial strain type are more directly involved in chlamydial disease progression in koalas from two south east Queensland koala populations than koala retrovirus subtypes.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Chlamydia pecorum is an established and prevalent infection that produces severe clinical disease in many koala populations, contributing to dramatic population declines. In wild South Australian koala populations, C. pecorum occurrence and distribution is unknown. Here, C. pecorum-specific real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) was applied to ocular and urogenital swabs from targeted surveys of wild koalas from the mainland Mount Lofty Ranges (MLR) (n = 75) and Kangaroo Island (KI) (n = 170) populations. Historical data from 13,081 KI koalas (1997-2018) provided additional evidence for assessing the absence of C. pecorum infection. In the MLR population, 46.7% (CI: 35.1-58.6%) of koalas were C. pecorum positive by qPCR but only 4% had grade 3 clinical disease. MLR koala fertility was significantly reduced by C. pecorum infection; all reproductively active females (n = 16) were C. pecorum negative, whereas 85.2% of inactive females (n = 23) were positive (P < 0.001). KI koalas were C. pecorum negative and the population was demonstrated to be free of C. pecorum infection with 95% confidence. C. pecorum is a real threat for the sustainability of the koala and KI is possibly the last isolated, large C. pecorum-free population remaining in Australia. These koalas could provide a safeguard against this serious disease threat to an iconic Australian species.
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