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THE important role of waterholes, rice fields, swamps, slow-moving streams and sewers in the epidemiology of human and animal leptospirosis has been established1–3. Wild animals and migratory birds, present in surrounding areas, have been found to be infected and have been implicated in the dissemination of the disease4–7. On the other hand, little is known about the role of strictly aquatic forms such as fish, or of partially aquatic forms such as amphibians. Negative results have been obtained in isolation attempts from minnows8 and amphibians5, equivocal findings have been reported in frogs9,10; leptospiral antibodies have been found in water turtles11,12.
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MAESTRONE, G., BENJAMINSON, M. Leptospira Infection in the Gold Fish (Carassius auratus). Nature 195, 719–720 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195719a0
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