Leptospira interrogans serovar Canicola is one of the most important pathogenic serovars for the maintenance of urban leptospirosis. Even though it is considered highly adapted to dogs, serovar Canicola infection has already been described in other animals and even a few human cases. Here, we present the...
We determined the seroprevalence of leptospirosis in a suburban canine population for the purpose of analyzing the association between different individual and environmental variables and seropositivity for leptospirosis. The study, which was crosssectional, was performed in July 1992 in a neighborhood o...
A cepa de leptospira Cf-1 (LT- 63-72), isolada da urina de um cao com sinais clinicos compativeis com leptospirose, foi identificada pelo teste de absorcao de aglutininas como sendo identica ao sorovar copenhageni, do grupo Icterohaemorrhagiae.Este foi o primeiro isolamento de leptospira de cao no Estado...
Correlacao entre soroaglutinacao microscopica e presenca de leptospiras nos rins de caes de rua, atraves de cultura. Observouse que 16% de caes com sorologia positiva para canicola eliminavam este sorotipo de seus rins; 2,8% dos positivos para icterohaemorrhagiae eliminavam o sorotipo copenhagenie e, de ...
