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One Health Approach to Leptospirosis: Dogs as Environmental Sentinels for Identification and Monitoring of Human Risk Areas in Southern Brazil

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Leptospirosis has been a neglected, widespread and reemerging zoonotic disease of global importance. The One Health holistic approach combining human, animal and environmental health has been important for control and prevention of zoonotic disease.
Natacha Sohn-Hausner, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Evelyn Cristine da Silva, Helio Langoni, Alexander Welker Biondo   +4 more
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Frequency of typhoon occurrence accounts for the Poisson distribution of human leptospirosis cases across the different geographic regions in the Philippines

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2019
Objective: To study the distribution of human leptospirosis cases across the different geographic regions in the Philippines in 2015-2017 and to determine the relationship between the frequency of typhoon occurrence and human leptospirosis cases. Methods:
Derick Erl P. Sumalapao, Benjamin Kyle M Del Rosario, Lara Beatrice L. Suñga, Catherine C Walthern, Nina G Gloriani   +4 more
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Role of TLR4 in Persistent Leptospira interrogans Infection: A Comparative In Vivo Study in Mice

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) 4, the LPS receptor, plays a central role in the control of leptospirosis and absence of TLR4 results in lethal infection in mice.
Nisha Nair, Mariana S. Guedes, Adeline M. Hajjar, Catherine Werts, Catherine Werts, Maria Gomes-Solecki   +5 more
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Leptospirosis is an emerging infectious disease of pig-hunting dogs and humans in North Queensland.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
BackgroundLeptospirosis is a zoonotic disease with a worldwide distribution, caused by pathogenic serovars in the genus Leptospira. Feral pigs are known carriers of Leptospira species and pig hunting using dogs is a common recreational activity in ...
Bronwyn Orr, Mark E Westman, Richard Malik, Auriol Purdie, Scott B Craig, Jacqueline M Norris   +5 more
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Molecular diagnostics for human leptospirosis [PDF]

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2016
Purpose of review The definitive diagnosis of leptospirosis, which results from infection with spirochetes of the genus Leptospira, currently relies on the use of culture, serological testing (microscopic agglutination testing), and molecular detection.
Jesse J, Waggoner, Benjamin A, Pinsky
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Human leptospirosis in a slum area in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a serological and epidemiological study

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1990
A serologic survey was carried out on slum dwellers in the city of Rio de Janeiro. A total of 259 serum samples from male and female individuals of different age groups were tested for the presence of antileptospire antibodies by microagglutination ...
M. M. Pereira, J. Andrade
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Un bien pour un mal... des améliorations sanitaires pernicieuses

Espace populations sociétés, 2006
Every hydraulic development project implies important changes and raises the question of water-borne diseases. The primary objective is to understand a water/health system which changes as it is observed.
Sandrine Brisset
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Contribuição do conhecimento da epidemiologia da leptospirose humana, com especial referência ao Grande Rio, Brasil, no período de 1970 a 1982 Contribution to the knowledge of the epidemiology of human leptospirosis with special reference to Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the period 1970 to 1982

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1987
Com o intuito de fornecer dados ao estudo da leptospirose humana, foram analisados 884 pacientes diagnosticados sorologicamente no Laboratório de Leptospirose da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ, no período de 1970 a 1982.
Jarbas Andrade, Angela Pires Brandão
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Reemerging Leptospirosis, California

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
Leptospirosis is a reemerging infectious disease in California. Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonosis throughout the world, though it is infrequently diagnosed in the continental United States.
Elissa Meites, Michele T. Jay, Stanley Deresinski, Wun-Ju Shieh, Sherif R. Zaki, Lucy Tompkins, D. Scott Smith   +6 more
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Study of biological properties of Leptospira interrogans serovar Canicola strains as candidate components of human leptospirosis concentrated inactivated vaccine

Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2021
Leptospirosis is a widespread zoonosis in Russia. The human leptospirosis vaccine produced by Rostov Research Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology has been used since 1998 to minimise risks associated with deterioration of epidemiological situation.
A. A. Trotsenko, M. V. Kovrizhko, E. A. Yagovkin, V. S. Vanzha, А. A. Reshetov   +4 more
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