Factors associated with Leptospira sp infection in a large urban center in northeastern Brazil Fatores associados à infecção por Leptospira sp em um grande centro urbano do Nordeste do Brasil

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Juarez Pereira Dias, Maria Glória Teixeira, Maria Conceição Nascimento Costa, Carlos Maurício Cardeal Mendes, Patrícia Guimarães, Mitermayer Galvão Reis, Albert Ko, Maurício Lima Barreto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2007
• Subjects: Leptospirose; Soroprevalência; Epidemiologia; Epidemias urbanas; Leptospirosis; Seroprevalence; Epidemiology; Urban epidemics; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Nordeste
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822007000500002; https://doaj.org/article/eca5c79fc1bc4fcf83d3247d6e04fe9d

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease that has emerged to cause epidemics in urban communities in developing countries. However, little is known about the infection in the general population. A seroprevalence survey was performed on a random sample of 1,390 subjects in Salvador, Brazil. Data on enviro...