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Desvars A, Cardinale E, Michault A, 2011. Leptospirosis in small tropical areas. Epidemiol Infect 139: 167–188.
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World Health Organization, 2011. Weekly Epidemiological Record. Available at: http://www.who.int/wer/2011/wer8606.pdf. Accessed January 19, 2012.
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Reis RB, Ribeiro GS, Felzemburgh RD, Santana FS, Mohr S, Melendez AX, Queiroz A, Santos AC, Ravines RR, Tassinari WS, Carvalho MS, Reis MG, Ko AI, 2008. Impact of environment and social gradient on Leptospira infection in urban slums. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 23: e228.
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Villanueva SY, Ezoe H, Baterna RA, Yanagihara Y, Muto M, Koizumi N, Fukui T, Okamoto Y, Masuzawa T, Cavinta LL, Gloriani NG, Yoshida S, 2010. Serologic and molecular studies of Leptospira and leptospirosis among rats in the Philippines. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 889–898.
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Maaciel EA, de Carvalho AL, Nascimento SF, de Matos RB, Gouveia EL, Reis MG, Ko AI, 2008. Household transmission of Leptospira infection in urban slum communities. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2: e154.
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Epstein PR, Calix Pena O, Blanco-Racedo J, 1995. Climate and disease in Colombia. Lancet 346: 1243–1244.
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Perez-Garcia J, 1997. Histopathological findings in necropsies with leptospirosis [in Spanish]. Colomb Med 28: 4–9.
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Rodríguez AL, Ferro BE, Varona MX, Santafé M, 2004. Exposure to Leptospira in stray dogs in the city of Cali. Biomedica 24: 291–295.
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Agudelo-Flórez P, Londoño AF, Quiroz VH, Angel JC, Moreno N, Loaiza ET, Muñoz LF, Rodas JD, 2009. Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in urban rodents from a groceries trade center of Medellin, Colombia. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1: 906–910.
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Levett PN, Morey R, Galloway RL, Turner D, Steigerwalt AG, Mayer LW, 2005. Detection of pathogenic leptospires by real-time quantitative PCR. J Med Microbiol 54: 45–49.
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Herrmann JL, Bellenger E, Perolat P, Baranton G, Saint Girons I, 1992. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Not I digests of leptospiral DNA: a new rapid method of serovar identification. J Clin Microbiol 30: 1696–1702.
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Galloway RL, Levett PN, 2010. Application and validation of PFGE for serovar identification of Leptospira clinical isolates. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 14: e824.
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World Health Organization, 2003. Human Leptospirosis: Guidance for Diagnosis, Surveillance and Control. Geneva: World Health Organization and International Leptospirosis Society.
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Faine S, Adler B, Bolin C, Perolat P, 1999. Leptospira and Leptospirosis. Melbourne: MediSci.
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De Faria M, Calderwood M, Athanazio DA, McBride JA, Hartskeer RA, Pereira MM, Ko AI, Reis MG, 2008. Carriage of Leptospira interrogans among domestic rats from an urban setting highly endemic for leptospirosis in Brazil. Acta Trop 108: 1–5.
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Higa HH, Fujinaka IT, 1976. Prevalence of rodent and mongoose leptospirosis on the island of Oahu. Public Health Rep 91: 171–177.
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Vinetz JM, Glass GE, Flexner CE, Mueller P, Kaslow DC, 1996. Sporadic urban leptospirosis. Ann Intern Med 125: 794–798.
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Webster JP, Ellis WA, McDonald DW, 1995. Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in wildbrown rats (Rattus norvegicus) on UK farms. Epidemiol Infect 114: 195–201.
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Priya CG, Hoogendijk KT, Berg M, Rathinam SR, Ahmed A, Muthukkaruppan VR, Hartskeerl RA, 2007. Field rats form a major infection source of leptospirosis in and around Madurai, India. J Postgrad Med 53: 236–240.
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Brenner DJ, Kaufmann AF, Sulzer KR, Steigerwalt AG, Rogers FC, Weyant RS, 1999. Further determination of DNA relatedness between serogroups and serovars in the family Leptospiraceae with a proposal for Leptospira alexanderi sp. nov. and four new Leptospira genomospecies. Int J Syst Bacteriol 49: 839–858.
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da Silva EF, Félix SR, Cerqueira GM, Fagundes MQ, Neto AC, Grassmann AA, Amaral MG, Gallina T, Dellagostin OA, 2010. Preliminary characterization of Mus musculus-derived pathogenic strains of Leptospira borgpetersenii serogroup Ballum in a hamster model. Am J Trop Med Hyg 83: 336–337.
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Yang CW, Pan MJ, Wu MS, Chen YM, Tsen YT, Lin CL, Wu CH, Huang CC, 1997. Leptospirosis: an ignored cause of acute renal failure in Taiwan. Am J Kidney Dis 30: 840–845.
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Levett PN, 2003. Usefulness of serologic analysis as a predictor of the infecting serovar in patients with severe leptospirosis. Clin Infect Dis 36: 447–452.
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Perolat P, Lecuyer I, Postic D, Baranton G, 1993. Diversity of ribosomal DNA fingerprints of Leptospira serovars provides a database for subtyping and species assignation. Res Microbiol 144: 5–15.
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Macías-Herrera JC, Vergara C, Romero-Vivas C, Falconar A, 2005. Presentation of leptospirosis in Atlántico state (Colombia) from January 1999 to March 2004 [in Spanish]. Salud Uninorte 20: 18–29.
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Agudelo-Florez P, Restrepo-Jaramillo BN, Arboleda-Naranjo M, 2007. Leptospirosis in Uraba, Antioquia, Colombia: a seroepidemiological and risk factor survey in the urban population [in Spanish]. Cad Saude Publica 23: 2094–2102.
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Matthias MA, Ricaldi JN, Cespedes M, Diaz MM, Galloway RL, Saito M, Steigerwalt AG, Patra KP, Ore CV, Gotuzzo E, Gilman RH, Levett PN, Vinetz JM, 2008. Human leptospirosis caused by a new, antigenically unique Leptospira associated with a Rattus species reservoir in the Peruvian Amazon. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2: e213.
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Levett PN, Walton D, Waterman LD, Whittington CU, Mathison GE, Everard CO, 1998. Surveillance of leptospiral carriage by feral rats in Barbados. West Indian Med J 47: 15–17.
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Matthias MA, Levett PN, 2002. Leptospiral carriage by mice and mongooses on the island of Barbados. West Indian Med J 51: 10–13.
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Songer JG, Chilelli CJ, Reed RE, Trautman RJ, 1983. Leptospirosis in rodents from an arid environment. Am J Vet Res 44: 1973–1976.
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Rahelinirina S, Léon A, Harstskeerl RA, Sertour N, Ahmed A, Raharimanana C, Ferquel E, Garnier M, Chartier L, Duplantier JM, Rahalison L, Cornet M, 2010. First isolation and direct evidence for the existence of large small-mammal reservoirs of Leptospira spp. in Madagascar. PLoS ONE 5: e14111.
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Romero EC, Blanco RM, Galloway RL, 2009. Application of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for the discrimination of leptospiral isolates in Brazil. Lett Appl Microbiol 48: 623–627.
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Cross-Sectional Study of Leptospira Seroprevalence in Humans, Rats, Mice, and Dogs in a Main Tropical Sea-Port City
Claudia M. E. Romero-Vivas
Claudia M. E. Romero-Vivas
Grupo de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales, Departamento de Medicina, División Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia; Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia; Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Margarett Cuello-Pérez
Margarett Cuello-Pérez
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Piedad Agudelo-Flórez
Piedad Agudelo-Flórez
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Dorothy Thiry
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Paul N. Levett
Paul N. Levett
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Andrew K. I. Falconar
Andrew K. I. Falconar
Grupo de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales, Departamento de Medicina, División Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia; Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia; Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Samples were collected from 128 symptomatic humans, 83 dogs, 49 mice, and 20 rats (Rattus rattus: 16; Rattus norvegicus: 4) in neighborhoods where human leptospirosis have been reported within the principal sea-port city of Colombia. Seroprevalences were assessed against 19 pathogenic, 1 intermediate pathogenic, and 1 saprophytic Leptospira serogroups. Pathogenic Leptospira were confirmed using conventional Leptospira-specific polymerase chain-reaction and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis was used for serovar identification. Seroprevalences of 20.4%, 12.5%, 25.0%, 22.9%, and 12.4% were obtained against one to seven different serogroups in mice, R. rattus, R. norvegicus, dogs, and humans, respectively. The DNA was confirmed to be from pathogenic Leptospira by detecting the lipL32 gene in 12.5%, 3.7%, and 0.03% of the R. rattus, dog, and human samples, respectively. The first genetically typed Colombian isolate was obtained from a rat and identified as Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae/Copenhageni.
Author Notes
Financial support: This study was supported by the Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación, Colciencias ID Project Number 1215-408-20551.
Authors' addresses: Claudia M. E. Romero-Vivas, Margarett Cuello-Pérez, and Andrew K. I. Falconar, Grupo de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales, Departamento de Medicina, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. E-mails: clromero@uninorte.edu.co, margarethc@uninorte.edu.co, and afalconar@uninorte.edu.co. Piedad Agudelo-Flórez, Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia, E-mail: pagudelo@ces.edu.co. Dorothy Thiry and Paul N. Levett, Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, E-mails: dthiry@health.gov.sk.ca and plevett@health.gov.sk.ca.
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1.
Desvars A, Cardinale E, Michault A, 2011. Leptospirosis in small tropical areas. Epidemiol Infect 139: 167–188.
-
2.
World Health Organization, 2011. Weekly Epidemiological Record. Available at: http://www.who.int/wer/2011/wer8606.pdf. Accessed January 19, 2012.
-
3.
Reis RB, Ribeiro GS, Felzemburgh RD, Santana FS, Mohr S, Melendez AX, Queiroz A, Santos AC, Ravines RR, Tassinari WS, Carvalho MS, Reis MG, Ko AI, 2008. Impact of environment and social gradient on Leptospira infection in urban slums. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 23: e228.
-
4.
Villanueva SY, Ezoe H, Baterna RA, Yanagihara Y, Muto M, Koizumi N, Fukui T, Okamoto Y, Masuzawa T, Cavinta LL, Gloriani NG, Yoshida S, 2010. Serologic and molecular studies of Leptospira and leptospirosis among rats in the Philippines. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 889–898.
-
5.
Maaciel EA, de Carvalho AL, Nascimento SF, de Matos RB, Gouveia EL, Reis MG, Ko AI, 2008. Household transmission of Leptospira infection in urban slum communities. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2: e154.
-
6.
Epstein PR, Calix Pena O, Blanco-Racedo J, 1995. Climate and disease in Colombia. Lancet 346: 1243–1244.
-
7.
Perez-Garcia J, 1997. Histopathological findings in necropsies with leptospirosis [in Spanish]. Colomb Med 28: 4–9.
-
8.
Rodríguez AL, Ferro BE, Varona MX, Santafé M, 2004. Exposure to Leptospira in stray dogs in the city of Cali. Biomedica 24: 291–295.
-
9.
Agudelo-Flórez P, Londoño AF, Quiroz VH, Angel JC, Moreno N, Loaiza ET, Muñoz LF, Rodas JD, 2009. Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in urban rodents from a groceries trade center of Medellin, Colombia. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1: 906–910.
-
10.
Levett PN, Morey R, Galloway RL, Turner D, Steigerwalt AG, Mayer LW, 2005. Detection of pathogenic leptospires by real-time quantitative PCR. J Med Microbiol 54: 45–49.
-
11.
Herrmann JL, Bellenger E, Perolat P, Baranton G, Saint Girons I, 1992. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Not I digests of leptospiral DNA: a new rapid method of serovar identification. J Clin Microbiol 30: 1696–1702.
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12.
Galloway RL, Levett PN, 2010. Application and validation of PFGE for serovar identification of Leptospira clinical isolates. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 14: e824.
-
13.
World Health Organization, 2003. Human Leptospirosis: Guidance for Diagnosis, Surveillance and Control. Geneva: World Health Organization and International Leptospirosis Society.
-
14.
Faine S, Adler B, Bolin C, Perolat P, 1999. Leptospira and Leptospirosis. Melbourne: MediSci.
-
15.
De Faria M, Calderwood M, Athanazio DA, McBride JA, Hartskeer RA, Pereira MM, Ko AI, Reis MG, 2008. Carriage of Leptospira interrogans among domestic rats from an urban setting highly endemic for leptospirosis in Brazil. Acta Trop 108: 1–5.
-
16.
Higa HH, Fujinaka IT, 1976. Prevalence of rodent and mongoose leptospirosis on the island of Oahu. Public Health Rep 91: 171–177.
-
17.
Vinetz JM, Glass GE, Flexner CE, Mueller P, Kaslow DC, 1996. Sporadic urban leptospirosis. Ann Intern Med 125: 794–798.
-
18.
Webster JP, Ellis WA, McDonald DW, 1995. Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in wildbrown rats (Rattus norvegicus) on UK farms. Epidemiol Infect 114: 195–201.
-
19.
Priya CG, Hoogendijk KT, Berg M, Rathinam SR, Ahmed A, Muthukkaruppan VR, Hartskeerl RA, 2007. Field rats form a major infection source of leptospirosis in and around Madurai, India. J Postgrad Med 53: 236–240.
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20.
Brenner DJ, Kaufmann AF, Sulzer KR, Steigerwalt AG, Rogers FC, Weyant RS, 1999. Further determination of DNA relatedness between serogroups and serovars in the family Leptospiraceae with a proposal for Leptospira alexanderi sp. nov. and four new Leptospira genomospecies. Int J Syst Bacteriol 49: 839–858.
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21.
da Silva EF, Félix SR, Cerqueira GM, Fagundes MQ, Neto AC, Grassmann AA, Amaral MG, Gallina T, Dellagostin OA, 2010. Preliminary characterization of Mus musculus-derived pathogenic strains of Leptospira borgpetersenii serogroup Ballum in a hamster model. Am J Trop Med Hyg 83: 336–337.
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22.
Yang CW, Pan MJ, Wu MS, Chen YM, Tsen YT, Lin CL, Wu CH, Huang CC, 1997. Leptospirosis: an ignored cause of acute renal failure in Taiwan. Am J Kidney Dis 30: 840–845.
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23.
Levett PN, 2003. Usefulness of serologic analysis as a predictor of the infecting serovar in patients with severe leptospirosis. Clin Infect Dis 36: 447–452.
-
24.
Perolat P, Lecuyer I, Postic D, Baranton G, 1993. Diversity of ribosomal DNA fingerprints of Leptospira serovars provides a database for subtyping and species assignation. Res Microbiol 144: 5–15.
-
25.
Macías-Herrera JC, Vergara C, Romero-Vivas C, Falconar A, 2005. Presentation of leptospirosis in Atlántico state (Colombia) from January 1999 to March 2004 [in Spanish]. Salud Uninorte 20: 18–29.
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26.
Agudelo-Florez P, Restrepo-Jaramillo BN, Arboleda-Naranjo M, 2007. Leptospirosis in Uraba, Antioquia, Colombia: a seroepidemiological and risk factor survey in the urban population [in Spanish]. Cad Saude Publica 23: 2094–2102.
-
27.
Matthias MA, Ricaldi JN, Cespedes M, Diaz MM, Galloway RL, Saito M, Steigerwalt AG, Patra KP, Ore CV, Gotuzzo E, Gilman RH, Levett PN, Vinetz JM, 2008. Human leptospirosis caused by a new, antigenically unique Leptospira associated with a Rattus species reservoir in the Peruvian Amazon. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2: e213.
-
28.
Levett PN, Walton D, Waterman LD, Whittington CU, Mathison GE, Everard CO, 1998. Surveillance of leptospiral carriage by feral rats in Barbados. West Indian Med J 47: 15–17.
-
29.
Matthias MA, Levett PN, 2002. Leptospiral carriage by mice and mongooses on the island of Barbados. West Indian Med J 51: 10–13.
-
30.
Songer JG, Chilelli CJ, Reed RE, Trautman RJ, 1983. Leptospirosis in rodents from an arid environment. Am J Vet Res 44: 1973–1976.
-
31.
Rahelinirina S, Léon A, Harstskeerl RA, Sertour N, Ahmed A, Raharimanana C, Ferquel E, Garnier M, Chartier L, Duplantier JM, Rahalison L, Cornet M, 2010. First isolation and direct evidence for the existence of large small-mammal reservoirs of Leptospira spp. in Madagascar. PLoS ONE 5: e14111.
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32.
Romero EC, Blanco RM, Galloway RL, 2009. Application of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for the discrimination of leptospiral isolates in Brazil. Lett Appl Microbiol 48: 623–627.
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