Leptospirosis is a zoonosis of worldwide distribution, caused by Leptospira interrogans. It is a well known cause of bovine reproductive losses such as abortion, infertility, stillbirth and birth of weak calves. Inthis research, the relationship between the seroprevalence rate of Leptospira spp. infection and abortion inindustrial dairy farms of Hamedan province, Iran was studied. A total of 80...

BACKGROUND Leptospirosis in dogs is a disease of global importance. Early detection and appropriate therapeutic intervention are necessary to resolve infection and prevent zoonotic transmission. However, its diagnosis is hindered by nonspecific clinical signs and lack of rapid diagnostic tests of early infection. Recently, 2 rapid point-of-care tests (WITNESS Lepto [WITNESS Lepto, Zoetis LLC, K...

BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonosis. Chronic human infection and asymptomatic colonization have been reported. However, renal involvement in those with leptospira chronic exposure remains undetermined. METHODS AND FINDINGS In 2007, a multistage sampling survey for chronic kidney disease (CKD) was conducted in a southern county of Taiwan, an area with a high prevalence of ...

ABSTRACT: Leptospirosis is a zoonosis that can infect buffaloes and other mammalians, it’s caused by Gram-negative bacteria of the genus Leptospira spp. The infection occurs through contact with urine or contaminated environment mucous membranes animals, disease has two phases: leptospiremia leptospiruria. objective this study was to determine frequency leptospirosis in state Paraná, Brazil, as...

Aim: The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of antibodies against leptospira using a genus specific and serovar specific antigen by indirect ELISA (iELISA) and Microscopic Agglutination test (MAT), respectively. Materials and Methods: 300 sera samples were collected from dogs, from Pondicherry, suspected to be suffering from Canine leptospirosis and with no history of vacci...

Leptospirosis is a globally distributed zoonosis with varied clinical outcomes and multiorgan involvement in humans. In this study conducted from July 2011 to December 2011, 178 serum samples from patients suspected of leptospirosis were tested by Panbio IgM ELISA at National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, out of which 51 (28.65%) were positive for anti-Leptospira IgM antibody. Leptospiro...

A leptospirosis clinical-epidemiological study was made in humans and reservoirs in the state of Yucatán, México. Interviews and serological analyses were made on 400 persons from an open population, 439 probable cases of leptospirosis and 1060 animal reservoirs (cows, pigs, dogs, rats and opossums). IgM Leptospira Dipstick and Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT) was used to detect human antib...

background leptospirosis is an important zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic leptospira which can infect both humans and animals. this disease is caused by various serovars of leptospira interrogans sensu lato infection. rats are known to be one of the most important reservoirs and transmission sources of leptospirosis. however, the status of leptospirosis in wild rats has been unknown in man...

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease, it arises worldwide but most frequent in tropical and subtropical zone. It one of the notifiable treatable disease. plague caused by species bacteria called Leptospira shed into nature via urine infected animals. Rats are recurrent source human sepsis. Rivers assumption to be predominant risk factor for transmission disease humans. possesses an extensive var...

We read with interest the study reported by Ayral and others entitled “Distribution of Leptospira serogroups in cattle herds and dogs in France.” Ayral and others concluded that the inventory of infecting Leptospira serogroups revealed that current vaccines in France are not fully capable of preventing leptospirosis. In total, 394 cattle were diagnosed with clinical leptospirosis, and the resul...