background leptospirosis as an emerging infectious disease is considered as an important public health problem worldwide. objectives the current study aimed to identify potential risks for leptospirosis among rice farmers in khuzestan province, iran. patients and methods a cross-sectional study was carried out in khuzestan, south west iran, from october to december, 2012. randomly selected part...

Leptospirosis, brucellosis and toxoplasmosis are widely-distributed zoonosis, being the man an accidental participant of their epidemiological chains. The aim of this paper was to make a seroepidemiological report and identify occupational and environmental variables related to these illnesses in 150 workers in a slaughterhouse in the Northern region of Paraná. For the diagnosis of leptospirosi...

Leptospirosis is one of the most widespread and globally important zoonotic diseases. In India, it is emerged as an important cause of febrile illness with seasonal and geographical variation and affects humans on all continents, in both urban and rural area and in tropical and temperate climates. Most outbreaks of leptospirosis are reported in coastal regions. Leptospirosis has been recognized...

Although infrequently diagnosed in the United States, leptospirosis is a notable reemerging infectious disease throughout developing countries. Until 1995, when the disease was eliminated from the US list of nationally notifiable diseases, Hawaii led the nation in reported annual incidence rates. Leptospirosis remains a notifiable disease in Hawaii. To ascertain the status of leptospirosis in H...

Leptospirosis is a zoonosis distributed worldwide, endemic mainly in humid subtropical and tropical countries, with epidemic potential. It affects a range of both wild and domestic animals, including sheep, which transport leptospires in their urine and, therefore, can infect other animals and humans who deal with them. Therefore, leptospirosis is characterized as an occupational zoonosis. In i...

INTRODUCTION Forestry workers and other people who come into close contact with wild animals, such as hunters, natural science researchers, game managers or mushroom/berry pickers, are at risk of contracting bacterial, parasitological or viral zoonotic diseases. Synthetic data on the incidence and prevalence of zoonotic diseases in both animals and humans in European forests do not exist. It is...

Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal zoonotic infection and often neglected due to lack of knowledge. As an occupational disease, it has become global concern its disease burden in endemic countries rural areas. The objective the study was assess effectiveness educational intervention for knowledge on minimizing delays seeking treatment leptospirosis among farmers Monaragala District, Sri Lanka...

We studied the temporal and spatial patterns of leptospirosis, its association with flooding and animal census data in Thailand. Flood data from 2010 to 2012 were extracted from spatial information taken from satellite images. The incidence rate ratio (IRR) was used to determine the relationship between spatio-temporal flooding patterns and the number of human leptospirosis cases. In addition, ...

ABSTRACT Leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis are zoonoses of occupational character that spread worldwide, mainly in tropical socioeconomically vulnerable areas. Both diseases have vertebrate hosts, which the infectious agent to environment potentially humans can progress fatal cases. The present study reinforces importance One Health for control prophylaxis leptospirosis using sentinel animals are...