%0 Journal Article %T Mixed Leptospira Infections in a Diverse Reservoir Host Community, Madagascar, 2013–2015 %+ University of Aberdeen %+ Institut Pasteur de Madagascar %+ CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe] %A Moseley, Mark %A Rahelinirina, Soanandrasana %A Rajerison, Minoarisoa %A Garin, Benoit %A Piertney, Stuart %A Telfer, Sandra %Z This work was supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship (no. 095171 to S.T.), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (grant no. BB/M010996/1), and the University of Aberdeen Environment and Food Security theme. %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1080-6040 %J Emerging Infectious Diseases %I Centers for Disease Control and Prevention %V 24 %N 6 %P 1138 - 1140 %8 2018-06 %D 2018 %R 10.3201/eid2406.180035 %M 29774844 %K Madagascar %K bacteria %K co-infections %K disease ecology %K introduced species %K invasive %K maintenance hosts %K molecular epidemiology %K neglected tropical diseases %K public health %K reservoir hosts %K spillover %K zoonoses %K Leptospira %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseasesJournal articles %X We identified mixed infections of pathogenic Leptospira in small mammals across a landscape-scale study area in Madagascar by using primers targeting different Leptospira spp. Using targeted primers increased prevalence estimates and evidence for transmission between endemic and invasive hosts. Future studies should assess rodentborne transmission of Leptospira to humans. %G English %Z We thank the staff of the Plague Central Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, for field and technical assistance, especially Fehivola Andriamiarimanana for DNA extractions and 16S qPCR assays; Toky Randriamoria for help with field work and identifying endemic species; and Mathieu Picardeau for supplying isolates used as positive controls in PCR experiments. %2 https://riip.hal.science/pasteur-01918931/document %2 https://riip.hal.science/pasteur-01918931/file/mixed%20leptospires%20Madagascar_2018.pdf %L pasteur-01918931 %U https://riip.hal.science/pasteur-01918931 %~ RIIP %~ RIIP_MADAGASCAR