Fatal Infection in a Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) with Leptospira interrogans Related to the Australis Serogroup in France.

Category Primary study
JournalJournal of wildlife diseases
Year 2025
We necropsied a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with gross and histologic lesions suggestive of leptospirosis, with intralesional argyrophilic bacteria. Real-time PCR detected Leptospira spp. in multiple organs. We identified Leptospira interrogans related to the Australis serogroup by typing the 16S rRNA and Lfb1 genes and by multilocus sequence typing.
Epistemonikos ID: 623f2bbfaf2ec342a098c9e1f7d2ee1f06847fd8
First added on: Jul 03, 2025