Fatal rodentborne leptospirosis in prison inmates, South Africa, 2015

Kovashnee Naidoo; Mark Moseley; Kerrigan McCarthy; Ruvimbo Chingonzoh; Charlene Lawrence; Grace M. Setshedi; John Frean; Jennifer Rossouw

doi:10.3201/eid2605.191132

Fatal rodentborne leptospirosis in prison inmates, South Africa, 2015

Kovashnee Naidoo^*, Mark Moseley, Kerrigan McCarthy, Ruvimbo Chingonzoh, Charlene Lawrence, Grace M. Setshedi, John Frean, Jennifer Rossouw

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Abstract

Leptospirosis is a neglected zoonotic disease. In 2015, leptospirosis was diagnosed in 2 prison inmates in South Africa. Using real-time PCR and DNA sequencing, we identified Leptospira interrogans serogroup Icterohaemorrhagiae in rodents and water samples within the prison. Leptospirosis might be frequently underdiagnosed in South Africa.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1033-1055
Number of pages	23
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	26
Issue number	5
Early online date	6 Apr 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2605.191132
Publication status	Published - May 2020

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This work was supported by a Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene small grant (grant no. GR000556) and by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council EastBIO DTP award (grant no. BB/M010996/1 to M.M.).

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Fatal rodentborne leptospirosis in prison inmates, South Africa, 2015

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