Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Pathogenic Leptospira spp. in Bats, Madagascar and Union of the Comoros

Erwan Lagadec¹, Yann Gomard¹, Vanina Guernier, Muriel Dietrich, Hervé Pascalis, Sarah Temmam, Beza Ramasindrazana, Steven M. Goodman, Pablo Tortosa

, and Koussay Dellagi

Author affiliations: Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les Maladies Émergentes dans l'Océan Indien, St. Clotilde, La Réunion, France (E. Lagadec, Y. Gomard, V. Guernier, M. Dietrich, H. Pascalis, S. Temmam, P. Tortosa, K. Dellagi); Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France (E. Lagadec, S. Temmam); Université de La Réunion, St. Clotilde (M. Dietrich, P. Tortosa); Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar (B. Ramasindrazana); Association Vahatra, Antananarivo (B. Ramasindrazana, S.M. Goodman); Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA (S.M. Goodman); and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, St. Clotilde (Y. Gomard, V. Guernier, H. Pascalis, S. Temmam, K. Dellagi)

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Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree of Leptospira spp.16s rDNA in bats from Madagascar and the Union of the Comoros. The dendrogram was constructed with a fragment of 641 bp, with the TIMef+I+G substitution model, and with 1,000 replications. Only bootstrap supports >70% are shown (circles). The precise geographic information of the sampled bats can be accessed through the GenBank accession numbers indicated in parentheses at branch tips. Host bat species for the sequences generated in this

Figure. . . Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree of Leptospira spp.16s rDNA in bats from Madagascar and the Union of the Comoros. The dendrogram was constructed with a fragment of 641 bp, with the TIMef+I+G substitution model, and with 1,000 replications. Only bootstrap supports >70% are shown (circles). The precise geographic information of the sampled bats can be accessed through the GenBank accession numbers indicated in parentheses at branch tips. Host bat species for the sequences generated in this study are shown in boldface. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

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¹These authors contributed equally to this article.

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