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We isolated Leptospira from soils and submitted the isolates to WGS. ANI & AAI showed the presence of 12 novel species, uncovering an unexpected biodiversity of this genus, and suggesting that soils are the original habitat of leptospires. In addition, we show that a subset of species, within the cluster "Pathogens", have a very low virulence towards classical animal models and can be discriminated from the virulent species by a specific subset of genes.
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This page is a summary of: Deciphering the unexplored Leptospira diversity from soils uncovers genomic evolution to virulence, Microbial Genomics, January 2018, Society for General Microbiology,
DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000144.
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