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Human\n                    <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>\n                    infections in Uganda are suspected to arise from animal\u2013human interactions. From a nationwide survey to determine\n                    <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>\n                    prevalence and circulating sequence types in Uganda, we tested 2030 livestock kidney samples, and 117 small mammals (rodents and shrews) using real-time PCR targeting the\n                    <jats:italic>lipL<\/jats:italic>\n                    32 gene. Pathogenic\n                    <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>\n                    species were detected in 45 livestock samples but not in the small mammals. The prevalence was 6.12% in sheep, 4.25% in cattle, 2.08% in goats, and 0.46% in pigs. 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