BACKGROUND Diagnosis of leptospirosis by the gold standard serologic assay, the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), requires paired sera and is not widely available. We developed a rapid assay using immunodominant Leptospira immunoglobulin-like (Lig) proteins in a Dual Path Platform (DPP). This study aimed to evaluate the assay's diagnostic performance in the setting of urban transmission. ...

BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis or also commonly called Weil disease is an acute infectious that can attack humans and animals classified as a zoonotic disease. caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira found in rodents. The difficulty diagnosis process causes case leptospirosis less reported one neglected diseases. Patient findings are often not optimal because underdiagnosis misdiagnosis. AIM: Thi...

Leptospirosis is a tropical neglected disease that is highly under-diagnosed and under-reported, mostly because of a lack of diagnosis capacity. The Institut Pasteur International Network includes researchers and physicians that have a recognized expertise in the field of leptospirosis epidemiology and diagnosis. Taking advantage of this international and widespread network of expertise, we cur...

Background: A test strip IgM Dot-ELISA assay for the detection of leptospirespecific IgM antibodies in human sera was developed. Antigen dotted on a nitrocellulose paper strip was the sonicated antigen prepared from Leptospira serovar prevalent in this area, i.e., Icterohaemmorhagiae. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate an inhouse prepared IgM DotELISA test strip for the diagnosis ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this article was to review published research articles on leptospirosis, in particular the recent incidence of leptospirosis in Malaysia and the currently available diagnostic methods for the detection of leptospirosis. METHODS PubMed, Google Scholar and Google Search databases were searched using the key words Leptospira and leptospirosis. A total of seventy-six referenc...

A serological survey of leptospirosis in cattle originating from rural communities of the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in South Africa was carried out between March 2001 and December 2003. The survey was designed as a 2-stage survey, using the local diptank as the primary sampling point. In total, 2021 animals from 379 diptanks in 33 magisterial districts were sampled and tested with the mic...

Background Leptospirosis is a globally disseminated zoonosis, recognized as a re-emergent neglected disease [1] and the causative pathogens are spirochetes from genus Leptospira [2]. In Brazil, more than 100.00 leptospirosis cases are reported annually, with outbreaks emerging especially during floods [3]. The microscopic agglutination test (MAT) is considered the standard serological test for ...

Leptospirosis is a common infection in domestic animals. The microscopic agglutination test (MAT) is used for serological diagnosis. From 1988 to 2007, the Leptospira Medical and Molecular Bacteriology Laboratory at the Nantes National College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Engineering used the MAT to test serum samples from more than 40,000 cattle, 40,000 pigs, 20,000 horses and 9,50...

The study compared the serological evidence of leptospirosis in 212 students in four schools (veterinary, dental, advanced nursing education and pharmacy) of the University of the West Indies (UWI), by testing for IgG immunoglobulins to Leptospira spp. using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Overall, of 212 students tested by the ELISA, ...

Leptospirosis is a common and underdiagnosed zoonosis. Two rapid assays for serological diagnosis of acute leptospirosis in diagnostic laboratories, the immunoglobulin M (IgM)-dipstick assay and the indirect hemagglutination assay (IHA), were evaluated and compared with standard assays. Sera were examined from 104 patients admitted to a hospital for investigation in a leptospirosis diagnostic p...