Multicentric research has identify Leptospira bacteria circulating in Uruguay

In a pioneering work, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from “Miguel C. Rubino” Lab at the Ministry of Livestock (MGAP), the National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), the state university (Udelar) the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo and the Institut Pasteur (Paris) have identified for the first time the pathogenic strains of the Leptospira bacteria that circulate in Uruguay infecting cattle and people.

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