Leptospirosis — Australia
The corkscrew bacterium, _Leptospira interrogans_, has never been detected in the Tasmanian devil, until now thanks to a PhD student from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
Doctoral student, Sarah Wynwood developed a technique for testing leptospirosis in humans and animals as part of her PhD study, which in turn resulted in detecting leptospirosis bacteria in Tasmanian devils for the 1st time [but not for the 1st time in Tasmanian wildlife] and isolated a strain of the
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