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Here, we report a survey of 242 rodents and small mammals, including 43 <jats:italic>Myodes glareolus<\/jats:italic>, 131 <jats:italic>Apodemus flavicollis<\/jats:italic>, 53 <jats:italic>Apodemus agrarius<\/jats:italic>, three <jats:italic>Apodemus sylvaticus<\/jats:italic>, six <jats:italic>Sorex araneus<\/jats:italic>, four <jats:italic>Microtus arvalis<\/jats:italic>, one <jats:italic>Microtus agrestis<\/jats:italic>, and one <jats:italic>Muscardinus avellanarius<\/jats:italic>, collected at eight sites in Croatia over an 8-year period. Multiplex MassTag polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used for detection of <jats:italic>Borrelia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Bartonella<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Babesia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Ehrlichia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Anaplasma<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Francisella tularensis<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Coxiella burnetii<\/jats:italic>. Individual PCR assays were used for detection of <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, orthopoxviruses, flaviviruses, hantaviruses, and <jats:italic>Toxoplasma gondii<\/jats:italic>. Of the rodents, 52 (21.5%) were infected with <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>, 9 (3.7%) with <jats:italic>Borrelia miyamotoi<\/jats:italic>, 5 (2%) with <jats:italic>Borrelia afzelii<\/jats:italic>, 29 (12.0%) with <jats:italic>Bartonella<\/jats:italic>, 8 (3.3%) with <jats:italic>Babesia microti<\/jats:italic>, 2 (0.8%) with <jats:italic>Ehrlichia<\/jats:italic>, 4 (1.7%) with <jats:italic>Anaplasma<\/jats:italic>, 2 (0.8%) with <jats:italic>F. tularensis<\/jats:italic>, 43 (17.8%) with hantaviruses, and 1 (0.4%) with an orthopoxvirus. Other agents were not detected. Multiple infections were found in 32 rodents (13.2%): dual infections in 26 rodents (10.7%), triple infections in four rodents (2.9%), and quadruple infections in two rodents (0.8%). 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