Identification of Tenrec ecaudatus, a Wild Mammal Introduced to Mayotte Island, as a Reservoir of the Newly Identified Human Pathogenic Leptospira mayottensis.

• Main Authors: Erwan Lagadec (Author), Yann Gomard (Author), Gildas Le Minter (Author), Colette Cordonin (Author), Eric Cardinale (Author), Beza Ramasindrazana (Author), Muriel Dietrich (Author), Steven M Goodman (Author), Pablo Tortosa (Author), Koussay Dellagi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonosis of major concern on tropical islands. Human populations on western Indian Ocean islands are strongly affected by the disease although each archipelago shows contrasting epidemiology. For instance, Mayotte, part of the Comoros Archipelago, differs from the other...