Detection of Leptospira species in bat cadavers, Czech and Slovak Republics
Language English Country United States Media print
Document type Letter
PubMed
36039905
PubMed Central
PMC9518262
DOI
10.1080/22221751.2022.2117095
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Bats, Central Europe, Leptospira, Myotis, Nyctalus, emerging zoonoses,
- MeSH
- Chiroptera * MeSH
- Phylogeny MeSH
- Leptospira * genetics MeSH
- Leptospirosis * epidemiology veterinary MeSH
- Cadaver MeSH
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S genetics MeSH
- Animals MeSH
- Check Tag
- Animals MeSH
- Publication type
- Letter MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic epidemiology MeSH
- Slovakia epidemiology MeSH
- Names of Substances
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S MeSH
Kidney samples from 300 bat cadavers from the Czech and Slovak Republics were tested for Leptospira DNA using PCR and sequencing of three genes (lipL32, flab, and 16S ribosomal RNA). Overall detection rate was 4.7% and two bat species (Myotis myotis and Nyctalus noctula) were PCR-positive for at least one gene. Detected Leptospira sequences were similar to L. interrogans and L. borgpetersenii, and included a potentially novel species related to L. weilii.
Department of Botany and Zoology Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic
Department of Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore MD USA
Institute of Vertebrate Biology Czech Academy of Sciences v v i Brno Czech Republic
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