First Isolation and Direct Evidence for the Existence of Large Small-Mammal Reservoirs of Leptospira sp. in Madagascar

• Soanandrasana Rahelinirina,

  Affiliation Plague Unit, Pasteur Institute, Antananarivo, Madagascar

  ⨯
• Albertine Léon,

  Affiliation Frank Duncombe Laboratory, IFR 146 ICORE, Caen, France

  ⨯
• Rudy A. Harstskeerl,

  Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Centre, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  ⨯
• Natacha Sertour,

  Affiliation National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

  ⨯
• Ahmed Ahmed,

  Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Centre, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  ⨯
• Claudine Raharimanana,

  Affiliation Plague Unit, Pasteur Institute, Antananarivo, Madagascar

  ⨯
• Elisabeth Ferquel,

  Affiliation National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

  ⨯
• Martine Garnier,

  Affiliation National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

  ⨯
• Loïc Chartier,

  Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

  ⨯
• Jean-Marc Duplantier,

  Affiliation IRD, UMR CBGP (INRA/IRD/Cirad/Montpellier SupAgro), Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

  ⨯
• Lila Rahalison,

  Affiliation Plague Unit, Pasteur Institute, Antananarivo, Madagascar

  ⨯
• Muriel Cornet

  * E-mail: MCornet@chu-grenoble.fr

  Affiliations National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, Parasitology-Mycology Laboratory, CHU Grenoble, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

  ⨯