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Data may be preliminary. enCro Silva Carlos Jean Brazil archipelago, of first characterization the molecular and leptospirosis of Seroepidemiology eriaNeto Ferreira Filho Oliveira amla pce,wihmyhro h ahgni hi ea uue n hdtebcei i urine, 1999). via al., bacteria et (Faine the environment shed the and into tubules leptospires renal of their spread in the by pathogen to caused the greatly importance harbor contributing global may which increasingly genus and , the distribution mammalian widespread of of bacteria disease pathogenic zoonotic a is Leptospirosis leptospirosis of transmission the an in from role Introduction isolated major ever a play strain archipelago. the leptospiral synanthropic in first that species the domestic suggest of and results characterization wildlife The among the belongs Brazil. providing isolate in the also setting that archipelago, all insular revealed Noronha practically characterization of in de and Fernando (n=57) presence rat, Icterohaemorrhagiae brown in the was one revealed serogroup from results recovered found MAT were frequently to leptospires The most Viable the (MLST). and included. 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