leptospirosis is an acute infectious, systemic and septisemic disease which had recent outbreaks in some parts of iran especially in north provinces. rapid detection is a critical step for treatment and control of this disease. in this research a pcr based method was evaluated for detection of iranian local endemic serovars. all reported endemic serovars of leptospira including leptospira gripp...

Background: Leptospirosis is the most common zoonosis widespread in tropical and temperate countries with low social-economic status. We aimed to compare an ELISA kit with an in-house ELISA assay to test the serum samples of the patients who were suspicious of leptospirosis according to their clinical symptoms. Methods: A total of 282 serum samples of patients suspicious of leptospirosis admitt...

background and objectives: timely diagnosis of leptospirosis is essential for an effective treatment. large diversity of clinical symptoms has led leptospirosis diagnosis difficult. researchers have conducted many tests with wide-range of sensitivity and specificity to achieve novel diagnostic procedures which have higher sensitivity and specificity compared with previous tests and which are mo...

background: leptospirosis is the most common zoonosis widespread in tropical and temperate countries with low social-economic status. we aimed to compare an elisa kit with an in-house elisa assay to test the serum samples of the patients who were suspicious of leptospirosis according to their clinical symptoms.   methods: a total of 282 serum samples of patients suspicious of leptospirosis admi...

leptospirosis in cattle is a worldwide problem associated with abortion, agalactia, still birth and infertility resulting in major economic losses to dairy industry. there is lack of data regarding seroprevalence of bovine leptospirosis in eastern india. so, with the aim to investigate the prevalence of the disease in odisha and west bengal state of eastern india, a total of 350 cattle serum sa...

We read the article by Dutta et al on “Leptospirosis An Overview” with interest.1 The problem in utilizing microscopic agglutination test (MAT) has been highlighted and we shall discuss briefly the current status of MAT. MAT is considered the gold standard test for diagnosis of leptospirosis. It has unsurpassed specificity, but its sensitivity is low compared to ELISA/SAT (Slide agglutination t...

Leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonotic disease, which can induce hepatic lesions. Photosensitization (PS)maybe is the result of accumulation of photodynamic agents in unpigmented area of the skin exposed tosunlight which occurred due to hepatic lesions. An outbreak of leptospirosis was occurred in a dairy cattleherd complex with 760 dairy milking cows in March (1990). Totally, 412 cows (54.21%) ...

BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is endemic in both urban and rural areas of Sri Lanka and there had been many out breaks in the recent past. This study was aimed at validating the leptospirosis surveillance case definition, using the Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT). METHODS The study population consisted of patients with undiagnosed acute febrile illness who were admitted to the medical wards o...

BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is a globally emerging zoonotic disease and an important public health threat in developing countries. Diagnosis of leptospirosis is mainly based on clinical presentations in resource poor countries. World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced "Faine's criteria" for diagnosis of leptospirosis. This study was conducted to evaluate the usefulness of modified Faine's cr...