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What Makes a Bacterial Species Pathogenic?:Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Genus Leptospira [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
Leptospirosis, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira, is a globally widespread, neglected and emerging zoonotic disease. While whole genome analysis of individual pathogenic, intermediately pathogenic and saprophytic Leptospira species has been ...
Paul Levett, Joseph Vinetz, Yung-Fu Chang   +2 more
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Exposure and Carriage of Pathogenic Leptospira in Livestock in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021
From 2019–2020, the Virgin Islands Department of Health (VIDOH) investigated potential animal reservoirs of Leptospira spp., the pathogenic bacteria that cause leptospirosis.
Hannah M. Cranford, Marissa Taylor, Andrew Springer Browne, David P. Alt, Tammy Anderson, Camila Hamond, Richard L. Hornsby, Karen LeCount, Linda Schlater, Tod Stuber, Leah De Wilde, Valicia J. Burke-France, Esther M. Ellis, Jarlath E. Nally, Bethany Bradford   +14 more
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تشخیص مولکولی سرووارهای بیماری زای لپتوسپیرا با روش واکنش زنجیره ای پلیمراز بر اساس ژن lipL21 [PDF]

Archives of Razi Institute, 2015
لپتوسپیروزیس یک بیماری زئونوز با انتشار جهانی است که توسط باکتری لپتوسپیرا اینتروگانس ایجاد می شود. تشخیص دقیق آن برای تمایز لپتوسپیروزیس از دیگر عفونت های تب زا و شایع در محل های مشابه و جهت درمان مناسب حائز اهمیت است.
رسول حسین پور, پژواک خاکی, مجتبی نوفلی, سهیلا مرادی بیدهندی   +3 more
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Genetic diversity of Leptospira strains circulating in humans and dogs in France in 2019-2021

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023
Leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonotic disease. Humans and dogs are susceptible hosts, with similar clinical manifestations ranging from a febrile phase to multiple organ dysfunction.
Marta Garcia-Lopez, Marta Garcia-Lopez, Celine Lorioux, Anais Soares, Sabine Trombert-Paolantoni, Elena Harran, Florence Ayral, Mathieu Picardeau, Zouheira Djelouadji, Pascale Bourhy   +9 more
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Leptospira and leptospirosis [PDF]

Veterinary Microbiology, 2010
Leptospirosis is the most wide spread zoonosis worldwide; it is present in all continents except Antarctica and evidence for the carriage of Leptospira has been found in virtually all mammalian species examined. Humans most commonly become infected through occupational, recreational, or domestic contact with the urine of carrier animals, either ...
Ben, Adler, Alejandro, de la Peña Moctezuma   +1 more
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Overcoming problems to produce the recombinant protein LipL21 of Leptospira interrogans

BioTechniques, 2023
The production of leptospiral recombinant proteins in the soluble form and in high yield from Escherichia coli is still a challenge. This work presents the cloning, expression and purification of the outer membrane protein of Leptospira interrogans ...
Maria Beatriz Takahashi, Aline Florencio Teixeira, Ana Lucia Tabet Oller Nascimento   +2 more
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Leptospiraand Inflammation [PDF]

Mediators of Inflammation, 2012
Leptospirosis is an important zoonosis and has a worldwide impact on public health. This paper will discuss both the role of immunogenic and pathogenic molecules during leptospirosis infection and possible new targets for immunotherapy against leptospira components.Leptospira, possess a wide variety of mechanisms that allow them to evade the host ...
C. F. Gonçalves-de-Albuquerque, P. Burth, A. R. Silva, M. Younes-Ibrahim, H. C. Castro-Faria-Neto, M. V. Castro-Faria   +5 more
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Seroprevalence and Clinicoepidemiological Profile of Leptospirosis in Acute Febrile Illness Cases at a Medical College in Amritsar, Punjab, India [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Introduction: Leptospirosis is an anthropozoonotic disease; it occurs worldwide but is most common in tropical and subtropical countries. It is usually underreported due to a lack of awareness, atypical presentations and lack of diagnostic facilities ...
Prabhjot Kaur, Kanwardeep Singh, Loveena Oberoi, Shailpreet Kaur Sidhu, Amandeep Singh   +4 more
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Molecular Detection of Leptospira in Pediatric Aseptic Meningitis

Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2022
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic Leptospira bacterial species. It is tremendously neglected, and scarce epidemiological data is present worldwide.
Ahmed M. H. Mohamed, Sami E. A. Algam, Abdel Rahim M El Hussein, Isam M Elkhidir, Khalid A Enan   +4 more
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Leptospira dzianensis and Leptospira putramalaysiae are later heterotypic synonyms of Leptospira yasudae and Leptospira stimsonii

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2019
Leptospira dzianensis and Leptospira putramalaysiae were recently described as novel species and published almost concurrently with
Casanovas-Massana, Arnau, Vincent, Antony, Bourhy, Pascale, Neela, Vasantha Kumari, Veyrier, Frederic, Picardeau, Mathieu, Wunder, Elsio, Wunder Jr., Elsio   +7 more
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