Transient Presence of Live Leptospira interrogans in Murine Testes-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Transient Presence of Live Leptospira interrogans in Murine Testes

Published:2022-06-29 Issue:3 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Shetty Advait¹^ORCID,Kundu Suman²,Vernel-Pauillac Frédérique³,Ratet Gwendoline³,Werts Catherine³,Gomes-Solecki Maria¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

2. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

3. Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, CNRS UMR6047, INSERM U1306, Unité de Biologie et Génétique de la paroi bactérienne, Paris, France

Abstract

Analysis of venereal transmission of Leptospira is important to determine if direct animal to animal transmission occurs, which could impact measures to prevent and treat leptospirosis. The goal of this study was to determine if live Leptospira colonize mouse testes.

Funder

HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.02775-21

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