… leptospiral infection in urban slums is determined in large part by structural features, both
social and environmental. … demonstrating the social and environmental gradient within the Pau …

… was contaminated with the urine of infected rats. In four urban slums in the city of Salvador,
Brazil, … Yet, even within communities that may appear uniformly poor, there are gradients in ill …

… In this study, we aimed to determine the abundance of pathogenic Leptospira in the surface
waters of an urban slum with high risk for leptospirosis infection, and to evaluate how their …

… burden of the pathogen affect the dynamics of leptospirosis infection and disease. These
future studies will also need to determine whether community interventions, despite not …

… community: role of poor environment in repeated exposures to the Leptospira agent. PLoS …
Impact of environment and social gradient on Leptospira infection in urban slums. PLoS Negl …

… gradients, high population density and a heterogeneous … of leptospirosis transmission in
an urban slum community: role of poor environment in repeated exposures to the Leptospira …

… is endemic in Pau da Lima, with a mean annual infection … elevation next to the valley slope
and had closed sewage drains, … infection and therefore, our results may overestimate the …

… types of activities and employments associated with leptospirosis infection in urban locality.
… . Impact of environment and social gradient on Leptospira infection in urban slums. PLoS …

… and factors associated with Leptospira infection in inhabitants of an urban district of Cali, …
Impact of environment and social gradient on Leptospira infection in urban slums. PLoS …

… Leptospira infection [3,10,11]. Previous studies showed that in urban slums, the occurrence
of Leptospira … The slope and the Y-intercept for our experiment were 1.19 (±0.001443) and -…