Table 2.
Abundance and identification of Leptospira genomospecies in rodent and shrew species investigated.
| Rodents and Shrews | Leptospira-positive Animals ** | Number of Identified Leptospira spp. *** | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | No. Trapped | Total Number | Percentage | L. kirschneri | L. interrogans | L. borgpetersenii |
| Apodemus | agrarius | 190 | 23 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| flavicollis | 792 | 71 | 9 | 17 | 36 | 1 | |
| sylvaticus | 154 | 27 | 18 | 6 | 13 | 0 | |
| spp. total | 1136 | 121 | 11 | 42 | 49 | 1 | |
| Micromys | minutus | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mus | musculus | 18 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Arvicola | amphibius | 8 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Clethrionomys | glareolus | 1016 | 66 | 6 | 38 | 18 | 0 |
| Microtus | agrestis | 517 | 64 | 12 | 38 | 1 | 6 |
| arvalis | 174 | 24 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
| oeconomus | 2 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| subterraneus | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| spp. total | 697 | 89 | 13 | 58 | 1 | 6 | |
| Crocidura | leucodon | 3 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| russula | 24 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| suaveolens | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| spp. total | 30 | 6 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sorex | araneus | 36 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| coronatus | 2 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| minutus | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| spp. total | 50 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 2961 * | 288 | 10 | 147 | 68 | 7 | |
Notes: * The genus and/or species of 12 animals (all Leptospira-negative) could not be identified and therefore these animals were not included in the table; ** The column “Leptospira-positive animals” refers to the lipl32 and/or duplex PCR results; *** Identification of genotypes was performed by duplex PCR for L. kirschneri and SLST for L. interrogans and L. borgpetersenii. The different sensitivities of the assays must be taken into account.