Leptospira and leptospirosis

B Adler, A de la Peña Moctezuma - Veterinary microbiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Leptospirosis is the most wide spread zoonosis worldwide; it is present in all continents
except Antarctica and evidence for the carriage of Leptospira has been found in virtually all …

Leptospirosis: an emerging global public health problem

P Vijayachari, AP Sugunan, AN Shriram - Journal of biosciences, 2008 - Springer
Leptospirosis has been recognized as an emerging global public health problem because of
its increasing incidence in both developing and developed countries. A number of …

Leptospirosis in the Asia Pacific region

AFB Victoriano, LD Smythe, N Gloriani-Barzaga… - BMC infectious …, 2009 - Springer
Background Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonotic infection that has been recognized for
decades, but the problem of the disease has not been fully addressed, particularly in …

Leptospirosis: public health perspectives

MA Guerra - Biologicals, 2013 - Elsevier
Leptospirosis, caused by a spirochete of genus Leptospira, is considered the most
widespread zoonosis in the world. It has a global distribution with a higher incidence in the …

[HTML][HTML] Leptospirosis prevalence in Chinese populations in the last two decades

C Zhang, H Wang, J Yan - Microbes and Infection, 2012 - Elsevier
Leptospirosis is a common zoonotic disease in China. From 1991 to 2010, its average
annual incidence was 0.70 cases per 100,000 population. During these two decades, three …

Vaccination With Leptospira interrogans PF07598 Gene Family-Encoded Virulence Modifying Proteins Protects Mice From Severe Leptospirosis and Reduces …

R Chaurasia, A Salovey, X Guo, G Desir… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The molecular and cellular pathogenesis of leptospirosis remains poorly understood. Based
on comparative bacterial genomics data, we recently identified the hypothetical PF07598 …

Large-scale application of highly-diluted bacteria for Leptospirosis epidemic control

G Bracho, E Varela, R Fernández, B Ordaz… - …, 2010 - thieme-connect.com
Background: Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of major importance in the tropics where
the incidence peaks in rainy seasons. Natural disasters represent a big challenge to …

Current treatment options for leptospirosis: a mini-review

P Petakh, P Behzadi, V Oksenych… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Leptospirosis, one of the most common global zoonotic infections, significantly impacts
global human health, infecting more than a million people and causing approximately …

Bovine leptospirosis: effects on reproduction and an approach to research in Colombia

AG Orjuela, JL Parra-Arango… - Tropical Animal Health …, 2022 - Springer
Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonosis worldwide, causing severe effects on beef
and dairy cattle farming and other livestock. Colombia geographical location in the tropical …

In silico identification of common putative drug targets in Leptospira interrogans

U Amineni, D Pradhan, H Marisetty - Journal of chemical biology, 2010 - Springer
Infectious diseases are the leading causes of death worldwide. Hence, there is a need to
develop new antimicrobial agents. Traditional method of drug discovery is time consuming …