Leptospiral infection
Evaluation of a commercial enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for detection of immunoglobulin M antibody in diagnosis of human leptospiral infection
... interrogans infection was assessed by testing sera with known microagglu- tination test (MAT) titers to serovars pomona, hardjo, copenhageni, and ...recent leptospiral infection (sensitivity, 100%), ...
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CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM SEQUELAE IN A CHILD FOLLOWING ASEPTIC MENINGITIS ASSOCIATED WITH LEPTOSPIRAL INFECTION
... ASEPTIC MENINGITIS ASSOCIATED WITH LEPTOSPIRAL INFECTION CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM SEQUELAE IN A CHILD FOLLOWING. Services[r] ...
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Feline leptospiral infection : with particular emphasis on Leptospira interrogans servor ballum : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Veterinary Pathology and Public Health at Massey University
... pomona infection is usually associated with farm animals part icularly the p ig (de Jong and Fowler , unpublished 1 9 6 8 ) as well as cattle and dogs (Te Punga and Bishop , 1 9 53 ) , sheep (Har tley , 1 9 5 2 ) ...
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Feline leptospiral infection : with particular emphasis on Leptospira interrogans servor ballum : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Veterinary Pathology and Public Health at Massey University
... The longes t durat ion of the c arrier state was 1 22 days af ter oral infection and this was obtained with an infec t ive dose of 10 8 lep tospir es . L ep tosp iruria commenced a t 1 3 days p . i . A direct ...
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Patterns in Leptospira Shedding in Norway Rats (Rattus norvegicus) from Brazilian Slum Communities at High Risk of Disease Transmission
... of leptospiral infection in rats has rarely been reported, almost certainly a reflection of small sample sizes, but was documented in Vancouver, Canada ...in leptospiral loads have not been ...
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LruA and LruB Antibodies in Sera of Humans with Leptospiral Uveitis
... leptospirosis. Infection with Leptospira ...Human leptospiral uveitis has been reported in various areas of the world, including the region around the city of Madurai in southern India (6, 17, 22, ...
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Early Diagnosis of Leptospirosis by Immunoglobulin M Immunoblot Testing
... There is an urgent need for the development of serodiagnostic approaches with improved sensitivity for patients with acute leptospirosis. Immunoblots were performed on 188 sera collected from 74 patients with ...
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Rapid Diagnosis of Leptospirosis by Multiplex PCR
... In this report, we described the development of an mPCR for the rapid detection of leptospiral infection based on the amplification of 2 genes: 16S rRNA gene and LipL32 gene. The mPCR used in this study ...
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Evaluation of New ELISA based on rLsa63 - rLipL32 antigens for serodiagnosis of Human Leptospirosis.
... The immune system will recognize cell surface antigens while initial contact of pathogenic Leptospira occur, and produce antibodies against them. Since the antibodies generated against the surface antigens of the ...
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Evaluation of Recombinant Leptospira Antigen Based Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays for the Serodiagnosis of Leptospirosis
... whole-cell leptospiral antigen preparations (43, 44, 50) have been devel- oped for use as an alternative method to screen for leptospiral infection, although the MAT is still required for case ...
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Evaluation of Co-Agglutination Test in the early diagnosis of Leptospirosis.
... Transmission of leptospiral infection depends to a great extent on the environment which favours the survival of leptospira outside the animal host. Optimal factors for the survival of leptospira are the ...
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Detection of Pathogenic Leptospiral DNA Traces in Canine Sera Serum Samples by Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP)
... a leptospiral infection in dogs include renal or hepatic failure, uveitis, pulmonary hemorrhage, acute febrile illness or abortion ...spp. infection of a veterinarian during examination of a pet rat ...
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Seroprevalance of Leptospirosis in Sheep in Maku, Northwest of Iran
... of leptospiral infection (At titers 100 and 200) was ...of leptospiral infection ...of leptospiral infection was ...of leptospiral infections is asymptomatic and the ...
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Evaluation of Asymptomatic Family Members for Leptospirosis in Patients with Symptomatic Leptospirosis
... In urban and rural areas of developing countries where leptospires are widespread in the environment and endemic, the infection is related to “the way of life” as well as to the specific occupation. Thus, where ...
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Emergence of new leptospiral serovars in American Samoa ascertainment or ecological change?
... example, leptospiral serovar epidemiology can be affected by change in dis- tribution and/or abundance of animal reservoirs ...of leptospiral serovars in the Pacific region [21-24] support the hypothesis ...
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Multiplex pcr based detection of leptospira canicola in environmental water samples obtained from nagapattinam area
... detect leptospiral DNA in clinical samples, for environmental water samples using two sets of primers that allow the differentiation of pathogenic from non-pathogenic ...
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Serological studies and isolations of serotype hardjo and Leptospira biflexa strains from horses of Argentina
... The very limited number of leptospiral isolations of the less fastidious pathogenic serotypes, viz., pomona or canicola, that have been reported in horses, and the few pathogenic strains[r] ...
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Identification of Pathogenic Leptospiral Serovars by Detection of the ompl37 Gene Using PCR
... 6. Lilenbaum W, Varges R, Brandão F, Cortez A, De Souza S, Brandão P, et al. Detection of Leptospira spp. in semen and vaginal fluids of goats and sheep by polymerase chain reaction. Theriogenology. 2008; 69(7): 837-42. ...
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Development of Immunochromatography-Based Methods for Detection of Leptospiral Lipopolysaccharide Antigen in Urine
... A dipstick assay was applied to the urine samples of 46 infected hamsters. The culture method was used as a comparison method and a gold standard for the calculation of sensitivity and specific- ity. The culture method ...
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Prevalence of leptospiral antibodies in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) population of Croatia
... of leptospiral archaic foci, reservoirs, maintenance hosts and serovar distribution are also very important (Slavica et ...against leptospiral serovars found in this study ...
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