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Asiatic red bellied squirrels

Animal common names
Asiatic red bellied squirrels
Family
Mammalia
Animal genus and species
Callosciurus erythraeus
Serovar
Canicola
Serogroup
Canicola
Species
L.interrogans
Presumptive species
L.interrogans


Country names
Argentina
Other location data
Canada de Gomez, Southern Santa Fe
Year
2008


Specimen type
Kidney
Detection method
Culture
Determining method
Multilocus variable tandem repeats (MLVA)


Number of animals with id isolates
3
Animal age class
Not stated
Animal health
Healthy/Asymptomatic

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Citation

Gozzi AC, Guichon ML, Benitez VV, Romero GN, Auteri C, Brihuega B. First isolation of Leptospira interrogans from the arboreal squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus introduced in Argentina. Wildlife Biology. 2013;19(4):483-9.