Recently, leptospires were isolated from a frog in Iowa. 2 This report cites 4 human cases of leptospirosis, probably the result of hunting and dressing squirrels. Subsequently, squirrels were ...

Leptospirosis is an important ubiquitous zoonosis, most common in humid subtropical and tropical regions, caused by pathogenic strains of Leptospira interrogans. Leptospirosis is mainly an ...

As many producers and veterinarians work with animals on a regular basis, it can be easy to become careless about protecting ...

The capacity building component of the LepCon program in terms of infrastructure and human resource development were the best things that happened. We have a state of the art leptospirosis diagnostics ...

National Epidemiologist Dr. Shallaudin Ahmed has announced an increase in the Leptospirosis cases in Dominica. “Our team ...

Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that causes illness in humans through contact with infected animal urine and contaminated water. It is not a disease that spreads from person to person; when ...

If Lepto is left untreated, it can be deadly, and it can also spread to humans. “Leptospirosis doesn’t improve quickly,” ...

With the school holidays and hot weather, the Health Ministry is alerting school children and their parents to be extra careful not to contract the highly infectious leptospirosis disease while ...

Models of malaria and leptospirosis have been used to show that common hemodynamic changes in tropical disease include decreased systemic vascular resistance, increased cardiac output and ...