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Giant white-tailed rat

Animal common names
Giant white-tailed rat
Family
Mammalia
Animal genus and species
Uromys caudimaculatus
Serovar
Tarassovi
Serogroup
Tarassovi
Presumptive species
L.borgpeterseni


Country names
Australia
Other location data
Mossman, North Queensland
Year
1962


Specimen type
Kidney
Detection method
Culture
Determining method
No methods - Sent to "Brisbane Microbiology Laboratory"


Number of animals with id isolates
1
Animal age class
Not stated
Animal health
Not stated

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Citation

Battey YM, Smith DJW, Barrow GJ, 1964. The epidemiology of leptospirosis in North Queensland, II. Further observations on the hosts in the Mossman district. J Hyg 62: 465-494.