Background Leptospirosis is one of the most important neglected tropical bacterial diseases
in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, very little is known about the circulating …

The persistence of anti-leptospiral IgM and IgG antibodies and agglutinating antibodies was
studied in serologically confirmed cases of severe leptospirosis during the acute illness and …

There is an urgent need for improved diagnosis of leptospirosis, an emerging infectious
disease which imparts a large disease burden in developing countries. We evaluated the …

In this study, we used Southern hybridization of genomic DNA with the integral hap1 gene
as a probe to show that this gene is only present in pathogenic Leptospira strains. We then …

Leptospirosis is difficult to distinguish from dengue fever without laboratory confirmation.
Sporadic cases/clusters of leptospirosis occur in Puerto Rico, but surveillance is passive and …

Dengue fever and scrub typhus are common infections in Asia that often present as acute
febrile illness of unclear etiology. We prospectively evaluated febrile adults presenting to the …

Objetivo Determinar la seroprevalencia de anticuerpos a Leptospira spp. en población
humana aparentemente sana y en grupos a riesgo y los factores asociados en el Municipio …

Background Leptospirosis is an emerging zoonosis that is often under-recognized in
children and commonly confused with dengue in tropical settings. An enhanced ability to …

La leptospirosis, la enfermedad bacteriana zoonótica y emergente más importante en el
mundo, es causada por las especies patógenas de Leptospira spp. Han sido descritas …

During the 10-year period from 1997 through 2006, the reported mean annual incidence
rate of leptospirosis in the state of Hawaii was 3.3/100,000 with a range of 22–60 infections …