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Pet rodents as possible risk for leptospirosis, Belgium and France, 2009 to 2016.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Oct 2017
Mori Marcella, Bourhy Pascale, Le Guyader Marine, Van Esbroeck Marjan, Djelouadji Zorée, Septfons Alexandra, Kodjo Angeli, Picardeau Mathieu
Abstract excerpt
Leptospirosis is an under-reported and emerging zoonotic disease which is potentially fatal in humans. Rodents are the main reservoirs for pathogenic Leptospira spp., but diagnosis in these animals is difficult, and their infection, which does not induce symptoms, usually goes unoticed. Although the exposures of most human cases of leptospirosis are poorly documented, we were able to identify six human cases of...
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