the reservoir hosts and the environment. Leptospirosis is Occupation No. of Males Females primarily an occupational disease, but a contaminated participants environment makes any person vulnerable to infection. Agricultural workers 100 65 35 Fishermen and fisher folk 125 46 79 Calicut is an endemic area for leptospirosis. Clinical cases Hospital sanitary workers of leptospirosis have been recor...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the usefulness of a recombinant flagellar protein, FlaB, of Leptospira interrogans serovar pomona in the serodiagnosis of leptospirosis by the fluorescence polarization assay (FPA). The recombinant protein FlaB was purified to homogeneity by a combination of nickel-nitriloacetic acid agarose chromatography, electrophoresis, and electroelutio...

Leptospirosis is one of the major zoonotic diseases worldwide. This disease is caused by various serovars of Leptospira interrogans sensu lato infection. Although the rabbits are known to be one of the reservoirs and transmission sources of leptospirosis, but the status of this infection in rabbits in Iran remains unknown, so this survey was conducted to evaluate the seroprevalence of leptospir...

BACKGROUND Long-term microscopic agglutination test (MAT) results after vaccination with 4-serovar Leptospira vaccines are not available for all vaccines used in client-owned dogs. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES To determine antibody responses of client-owned dogs given 1 of 4 commercially available Leptospira vaccines. ANIMALS Healthy client-owned dogs (n = 32) with no history of Leptospira vaccina...

BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is one of the world's mostly spread zoonoses causing acute fever. Over years, leptospirosis has been reported to occur rarely in Austria and Germany (annual incidence of 0.06/100,000 in Germany). Only imported cases have been on the increase. Objectives of this case-series study were to retrospectively assess epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of leptospirosis i...

Abstract Leptospirosis is an endemic zoonotic disease that distributed worldwide, which has the potential to have health and economic impacts. Leptospira spp. spiral-shaped capable of infecting mammals, including horses, may result in asymptomatic or clinical forms. Therefore, current study aimed analyze frequency anti-Leptospira antibodies serum samples from horses Santarém, Pará, Brazil. For ...

Leptospirosis, a re-emerging zoonosis caused by pathogenic Leptospira, has a low incidence in Bulgaria. This paper reports a case of leptospirosis in Pleven, Bulgaria, in which the subject was infected after wading through irrigative canal in northern Greece. Two days later, he had a fever, myalgia and vomiting followed by jaundice, darkness of urine and oliguria. The patient was admitted to Cl...

BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease and its incidence is known in Chile since 2002, when it was incorporated as a disease that must be reported to health authorities. A serologic survey for leptospirosis was performed in humans and animals from a farm in a semi urban area in Santiago Chile, after the death of a farmer due to Weil disease in that place. AIM To report the prevalence ...

Received: Revised: Accepted: August 22, 2013 October 09, 2013 October 14, 2013 A molecular survey for pathogenic Leptospira spp. in kennelled dogs in Sicily, Italy, showed up to 16% of positive results. A fatal leptospirosis case was confirmed in a stray dog in the city of Palermo in May 2012. The dog, a mixed breed male, was recovered for therapy but died within an hour. Inflammation was prese...

Futuna is a small Polynesian island in the South Pacific with a population of 3,612 in 2013. The first human leptospirosis case was confirmed in 1997. Active surveillance started in 2004. Cases were confirmed by PCR or real time PCR, or by serology using MAT or a combination of IgM-ELISA and MAT. A retrospective analysis of surveillance data shows that the disease was endemic with a mean annual...