Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Simple Summary The isolation of Leptospira is the most important test to assess infection in
animal species. Several animals play a role as maintenance-host for specific serovars and …

Despite recent advances in our understanding of the genomics of members of the genus
Leptospira, little is known on how virulence has emerged in this heterogeneous bacterial …

Bats provide key ecosystem services such as crop pest regulation, pollination, seed
dispersal, and soil fertilization. Bats are also major hosts for biological agents responsible …

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic bacterial disease of global importance. A large spectrum of
asymptomatic animal hosts can carry the infection and contribute to the burden of human …

Bats are the only flying mammalian animals and are distributed worldwide. Bats are well‐
known hosts of several zoonotic viruses and bacteria, including Leptospira sp. Here, we …

Bartonella infections were investigated in seven species of bats from four regions of the
Republic of Georgia. Of the 236 bats that were captured, 212 (90%) specimens were tested …

Leptospirosis is caused by pathogenic Leptospira transmitted through contact with
contaminated environments. Most mammalian species are infectable by Leptospira but only …

The genus Leptospira encompass 22 species of spirochaetes, with ten pathogenic species
that have been recorded in more than 160 mammals worldwide. In the last two decades, the …

Understanding the processes driving parasite assemblages is particularly important in the
context of zoonotic infectious diseases. Leptospirosis is a widespread zoonotic bacterial …