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Black rat

Animal common names
Black rat
Family
Mammalia
Animal genus and species
Rattus rattus
Serovar
Bataviae
Serogroup
Bataviae
Species
L.interrogans
Presumptive species
L. interrogans


Country names
Malaysia
Other location data
Markets in Kuala Lumpar
Year
2011-2012


Specimen type
Blood, Kidney, Other tissue
Detection method
Culture
Determining method
Micro-agglutination testing on isolate, Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), Sequencing and phylogeny based on a single gene
Gene
secY, 16S


Number of animals with id isolates
14
Animal age class
Adult, Juvenile
Animal health
Not stated

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Citation

Benacer D, Mohd Zain SN, Amran F, Galloway RL, Thong KL, 2013. Isolation and molecular characterization of Leptospira interrogans and Leptospira borgpetersenii isolates from the urban rat populations of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Am J Trop Med Hyg 88: 704-9.