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Shotgun sequencing detects three Leptospira species in Philippine samples
A medRxiv preprint reports that shotgun metagenomic sequencing identified Leptospira genetic material and provided species-level assignments in archived samples from suspected Philippine leptospirosis cases. The method detected pathogenic Leptospira in 60% of qPCR-positive samples that were negative by the microscopic agglutination test.