Studies on Leptospira Icterohæmorrhagiæ in Rats in Bombay City

Notes on Infection by Leptospira Icterohæmorrhagiæ

On the Intra-Uterine Infection of the Fœtus with Leptospira Icterohæmorrhagiæ

Observations on Some Immunological Aspects of Leptospira Icterohæmorrhagiæ

Active immunization against leptospiral infection was first demonstrated by Ido et al. (1916). They successfully immunized guineapigs with killed leptospira in the liver emulsions of infected guinea-pigs. Noguchi (1918) employed leptospira cultures instead of infected liver emulsion, and found that the inoculation of the killed cultures in sufficient quantities afforded complete protection to t...

Distribution of Leptospira interrogans by Multispacer Sequence Typing in Urban Norway Rats (Rattus norvegicus): A Survey in France in 2011-2013

BACKGROUND Urban leptospirosis has increasingly been reported in both developing and developed countries. The control of the disease is limited because our understanding of basic aspects of the epidemiology, including the transmission routes of leptospires among rat populations, remains incomplete. Through the ability to distinguish among Leptospira strains in rats, multispacer sequence typing ...

First Observation of Leptospira interrogans in the Lungs of Rattus norvegicus

We report the first two cases of pulmonary presence of leptospires in apparently healthy rats captured in a city park in Lyon (France). Only renal carriage of Leptospira has been described in the literature. Blood serology was performed in parallel with molecular and histological analyses of the kidney and lung samples. We isolated leptospires from the kidneys of two out of three seropositive w...