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SUBMITTER: Rockwell KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6553713 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rockwell Kelly E KE Thompson Dan D Maddox Carol C Mitchell Mark A MA
PloS one 20190606 6
Leptospira spp. are re-emerging zoonotic pathogens. Previous research has found that Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) experimentally infected with Leptospira interrogans shed leptospires in their urine, suggesting that they could play a role in transmitting pathogen within an aquatic ecosystem. This study investigated whether a population of wild Blanding's turtles known to be exposed to Leptospira spp. actively shed the pathogen under natural conditions. Blood samples were collected fo ...[more]