Human and canine leptospirosis: serological data of São Paulo City, Brazil, 2000 to 2003.
Sera from humans and dogs were tested by microscopic agglutination test. Icterohaemorrhagiae was the predominant serogroup in both groups, associated with the infestation of Rattus norvegicus.
Chapola
Erica Giuseppina Berardis
EG
Laboratory of Zoonosis and Vector Communicable Diseases, Brazil. erica@prefeitura.sp.gov.br
dos Santos
Maria das Graças Soares
Md
Bessa
Thirsa Alvares Franco
TA
de Oliveira
Maria Lúcia
ML
D000372:Agglutination Tests; D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D007921:Leptospira interrogans; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000662:veterinary*; D051381:Rats / Q000382:microbiology*; D014895:Weil Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology*