ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Volume 16 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1716137 This article is part of the Research TopicZoonotic Diseases: Epidemiology, Multi-omics, and Host-pathogen Interactions Vol IIView all 14 articles Introduction The genus Leucobacter, a member of the family Microbacteriaceae within the phylum Actinobacteria (Takeuchi et al., 1996), comprises Gram-positive, non-spore-forming bacteria with high GC content.