• DOI:10.3390/urbansci3030099
Corpus ID: 202865004

Pathogenic Leptospira in Commensal Small Mammals from the Extensively Urbanized Coastal Benin

@inproceedings{Houmnou2019PathogenicLI,
  title={Pathogenic Leptospira in Commensal Small Mammals from the Extensively Urbanized Coastal Benin},
  author={G. Hou{\'e}m{\`e}nou and P. Gauthier and J. Etougb{\'e}tch{\'e} and Sylvestre A. Badou and H. Dossou and David Agossou and M. Picardeau and G. Dobigny},
  year={2019}
}

G. Houémènou, P. Gauthier, +5 authors G. Dobigny

Published 2019

Biology

Leptospirosis is caused by spirochete bacteria of the genus Leptospira that affect one million and kill 60,000 persons annually in the world, who get infected through environmental mammal-excreted (notably rodent) pathogens. Using qPCR and DNA sequencing approaches, we here examine Leptospira occurrence and diversity in 971 commensal small mammals in urban and peri-urban habitats from south Benin, where socio-environmental conditions are favorable for human contamination. Prevalence reached 12… CONTINUE READING

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