TY - JOUR AU - Han, Hui-Ju AU - Wen, Hong-Ling AU - Liu, Jian-Wei AU - Qin, Xiang-Rong AU - Zhao, Min AU - Wang, Li-Jun AU - Luo, Li-Mei AU - Zhou, Chuan-Min AU - Zhu, Ye-Lei AU - Qi, Rui AU - Li, Wen-Qian AU - Yu, Hao AU - Yu, Xue-Jie T1 - Pathogenic Leptospira Species in Insectivorous Bats, China, 2015 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 6 SP - 1123 SN - 1080-6059 AB - PCR amplification of the rrs2 gene indicated that 50% (62/124) of insectivorous bats from eastern China were infected with Leptospira borgpetersenii, L. kirschneri, and several potentially new Leptospira species. Multilocus sequence typing defined 3 novel sequence types in L. kirschneri, suggesting that bats are major carriers of Leptospira. KW - Leptospira KW - bat KW - Eptesicus serotinus KW - Myotis fimbriatus KW - Myotis ricketti KW - Myotis pequinius KW - vector-borne diseases KW - zoonoses KW - Mengyin KW - Shandong KW - China KW - rrs2 KW - multilocus sequence typing KW - MLST KW - vector-borne infections KW - bacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2406.171585 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/6/17-1585_article ER - End of Reference