Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 32195642
Link to DOI – 10.7589/2019-07-186
J. Wildl. Dis. 2020 07; 56(3): 727-729
The pathogenic Leptospira species are very widespread in nature, persisting in the renal tubules of many domestic and wild animal reservoirs. We report the isolation of Leptospira interrogans serovar Pomona in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) stranded along the coast of Sardinia, Italy, in 2016.