- Animal common names
- Nutria
- Family
- Mammalia
- Animal genus and species
- Myocastor coypus
- Serovar
- Icterohaemorrhagiae
- Serogroup
- Icterohaemorrhagiae
- Presumptive species
- L.interrogans
- Country names
- France
- Other location data
- Pays de la Loire, Centre, Limousin
- Year
- 1996-1999
- Specimen type
- Kidney
- Detection method
- Culture
- Determining method
- Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), Micro-agglutination testing on isolate
- Number of animals with id isolates
- 2
- Animal age class
- Not stated
- Animal health
- Not stated
Citation
Michel V, Ruvoen-Clouet N, Menard A, Sonrier C, Fillonneau C, Rakotovao F, Ganière JP, André-Fontaine G, 2001. Role of the coypu (Myocastor coypus) in the epidemiology of leptospirosis in domestic animals and humans in France. European Journal of Epidemiology 17: 111-121.
