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SUBMITTER: Krairojananan P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720114 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krairojananan Panadda P Thaipadungpanit Janjira J Leepitakrat Surachai S Monkanna Taweesak T Wanja Elizabeth W EW Schuster Anthony L AL Costa Federico F Poole-Smith B Katherine BK McCardle Patrick W PW
Tropical medicine and infectious disease 20200930 4
Leptospirosis is a neglected zoonotic disease affecting mostly the world's tropical regions. The rural people of northeastern Thailand suffer from a large number of leptospirosis infections, and their abundant rice fields are optimal rodent habitats. To evaluate the contribution of diversity and carriage rate of pathogenic <i>Leptospira</i> in rodent reservoirs to leptospirosis incidence, we surveyed rodents, between 2011 and 2012, in four provinces in northeastern Thailand with the highest inci ...[more]