Leptospiral shedding and seropositivity in shelter dogs in the Cumberland Gap Region of Southeastern Appalachia

Dawn Spangler; Daniel Kish; Brittney Beigel; Joey Morgan; Karen Gruszynski; Hemant Naikare; Vinayak K. Nahar; Michele D. Coarsey; Ashutosh Verma

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228038

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Leptospiral shedding and seropositivity in shelter dogs in the Cumberland Gap Region of Southeastern Appalachia

Dawn Spangler,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, United States of America, Center for Infectious, Zoonotic and Vector-borne Diseases, Harrogate, TN, United States of America
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Daniel Kish,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, United States of America
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Brittney Beigel,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, United States of America
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Joey Morgan,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, United States of America
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Karen Gruszynski,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Human and Animal Health in Appalachia, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, United States of America
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Hemant Naikare,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tifton Veterinary Diagnostic and Investigational Lab, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, United States of America
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Vinayak K. Nahar,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine/John D. Bower School of Population Health, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States of America
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Michele D. Coarsey,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Tifton Veterinary Diagnostic and Investigational Lab, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, United States of America
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Ashutosh Verma

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: ashutosh.verma@lmunet.edu

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, United States of America, Center for Infectious, Zoonotic and Vector-borne Diseases, Harrogate, TN, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5506-5763

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Leptospiral shedding and seropositivity in shelter dogs in the Cumberland Gap Region of Southeastern Appalachia

Dawn Spangler,
Daniel Kish,
Brittney Beigel,
Joey Morgan,
Karen Gruszynski,
Hemant Naikare,
Vinayak K. Nahar,
Michele D. Coarsey,
Ashutosh Verma

Published: January 30, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228038

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