Isolation of a Seawater Tolerant Leptospira spp. from a Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis)

• Sylvia Grune Loffler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

  * E-mail: grune.sylvia@inta.gob.ar

  Affiliations Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Virginia Rago ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina

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• Mara Martínez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

  Affiliation Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Marcela Uhart ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina, One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Monica Florin-Christensen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

  Affiliations Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Graciela Romero ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

  Affiliation Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Bibiana Brihuega

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Grune Loffler, Mara Martínez, Monica Florin-Christensen, Graciela Romero, Bibiana Brihuega

  Current address: Laboratory of Leptospirosis, Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Affiliation Institute of Pathobiology, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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