@article{01c10beee3b44c7db59a53df086c654e,
title = "Detection of Leptospira species in bat cadavers, Czech and Slovak Republics",
abstract = "Kidney samples from 300 bat cadavers from the Czech and Slovak Republics were tested for Leptospira DNA using PCR and sequencing of three genes (lipL32, flab, and 16S ribosomal RNA). Overall detection rate was 4.7% and two bat species (Myotis myotis and Nyctalus noctula) were PCR-positive for at least one gene. Detected Leptospira sequences were similar to L. interrogans and L. borgpetersenii, and included a potentially novel species related to L. weilii.",
keywords = "Bats, Central Europe, Leptospira, Myotis, Nyctalus, emerging zoonoses",
author = "Veronika Seidlova and Petra Strakov{\'a} and Romana Kej{\'i}kov{\'a} and Monika Nemcova and Tom{\'a}{\v s} Bartoni{\v c}ka and Ji{\v r}{\'i} Sal{\'a}t and Lucie Dufkov{\'a} and Silvie {\v S}ikutov{\'a} and Jan Mendel and Clifton McKee and Jan Zukal and Jiri Pikula and Ivo Rudolf",
note = "Funding Information: The study was financially supported by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic (No. NU21-05-00143) and FVHE/Pikula/ITA2021. The funders had no role in the study design, data analysis, and decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We also thank to wildlife rescuers and rehabilitators from centres in Plze{\v n} and Jina{\v c}ovice, Dagmar Zieglerova from the Czech Union for Nature Conservation; Nyctalus Praha and Jiri Safar from the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic for providing bat cadavers. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, on behalf of Shanghai Shangyixun Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1080/22221751.2022.2117095",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "11",
pages = "2211--2213",
journal = "Emerging Microbes and Infections",
issn = "2222-1751",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "1",
}