Table 1. Animals from the wild and domestic fauna of Mayotte tested for carriage of Leptospira spp. by real-time PCR, culture, and genotyping.
| Host species | Number of animals | Number of animals | Number of Leptospira | Number of typed | Leptospira spp. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tested by RT-PCR | tested by culture | spp. positive animals | Leptospira strains | |||||
| (OP, K, U)* | (K, U)* | (%) | Lb | Lm | Li | Lk | ||
| Rattus rattus | 289 | 81 | 46 (15.9) | 21 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| (OP = 289) | (K = 81) | (38PCR+/Culture- | ||||||
| 8PCR+/Culture+) | ||||||||
| Tenrec | 37 | 36 | 10 (27.0) | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| ecaudatus | (OP = 37) | (K = 36, U = 17, 17†) | (2PCR+/Culture- | |||||
| 8PCR+/Culture+) | ||||||||
| Bos indica | 18 | 0 | 1 PCR+ (5.6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| (K = 18) | ||||||||
| Canis lupus | 53 | 0 | 7 PCR+ (13.2) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| familiaris | (K = 38, U = 45, 30†) | |||||||
| Chaerephon | 69 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| sp. | (U = 69) | (U = 69) | ||||||
| Pteropus | 20 | 20 | 2 PCR+ (10.0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| seychellensis | (U = 20) | (U = 20) | ||||||
| comorensis | ||||||||
Lb: L. borgpetersenii, Lm: L. mayottensis, Li: L. interrogans, Lk: L. kirschneri.
* OP: organ pool, K: kidney, U: urine.
† Number of animals with paired sampling (OP/K+U)