Leptospirosis detected in Tasmanian devil by Australian doctoral student

The corkscrew bacterium, leptospirosis, has never been detected in the Tasmanian devil, until now thanks to a PhD student from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Doctoral student, Sarah Wynwood developed a technique for testing leptospirosis in humans and animals as part of her PhD study, which in turn resulted in detecting leptospirosis bacteria in Tasmanian devils ["]