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SUBMITTER: Verma A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6952108 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Verma Ashutosh A Beigel Brittney B Smola Christopher Carl CC Kitts-Morgan Susanna S Kish Daniel D Nader Paul P Morgan Joey J Roberson Jerry J Christmann Undine U Gruszynski Karen K Brandt LaRoy L Cho Ellen E Murphy Kelly K Goss Ryan R
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20191226 12
<h4>Background</h4>Leptospirosis is a widespread zoonotic disease that causes reproductive losses and/or hepatorenal failure in a number of animal species. Wild reservoirs of the disease, such as rodents, harbor the causative bacterium, Leptospira spp., in their kidneys and contaminate the environment by excreting infected urine. In this study, we tested small wild mammals, environmental water, and livestock in the Cumberland Gap region of southeastern Appalachia for the presence of pathogenic L ...[more]