Pathogenic Leptospira Species in Insectivorous Bats, China, 2015

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Han, Hui-Ju ; Wen, Hong-Ling ; Liu, Jian-Wei ; Qin, Xiang-Rong ; Zhao, Min ; Wang, Li-Jun ; Luo, Li-Mei ; Zhou, Chuan-Min ; Zhu, Ye-Lei ; Qi, Rui ; Li, Wen-Qian ; Yu, Hao ; Yu, Xue-Jie
• Description:
  PCR amplification of the rrs2 gene indicated that 50% (62/124) of insectivorous bats from eastern China were infected with Leptospira borgpetersenii, L. kirschneri, and several potentially new Leptospira species. Multilocus sequence typing defined 3 novel sequence types in L. kirschneri, suggesting that bats are major carriers of Leptospira.
• Subjects:
  Animal Diseases/epidemiology Animal Diseases/history Animal Diseases/microbiology Animals Dispatch Genes, Bacterial History, 21st Century Humans Leptospira/classification Leptospira/genetics Leptospira/pathogenicity Leptospirosis/veterinary Multilocus Sequence Typing Phylogeny Zoonoses

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 24(6):1123-1126.
• Pubmed ID:
  29774833
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6004874
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  China
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2b0244c58c3c9c295ebca8c33eb224b5783180367fc05da6739a9bbf216f301f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/56316/cdc_56316_DS1.pdf
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