Article
A One Health Approach to Investigating Leptospira Serogroups and Their Spatial Distributions among Humans and Animals in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2013–2015
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POLO, Noemi et al. A One Health Approach to Investigating Leptospira Serogroups and Their Spatial Distributions among Humans and Animals in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2013–2015. Trop. Med. Infect. Dis., v. 4, n. 42, 20p, Feb. 2019.
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Autor
Polo, Noemi
Machado, Gustavo
Rodrigues, Rogerio
Hamrick, Patricia Nájera
Munoz-Zanzi, Claudia
Pereira, Martha Maria
Bercini, Marilina
Timm, Loeci Natalina
Schneider, Maria Cristina
Resumen
Leptospirosis is an endemic zoonotic disease in Brazil and is widespread throughout rural
populations in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. This study aimed to identify presumptive infecting
Leptospira serogroups in human and animal cases and describe their occurrences within the ecoregions
of the state by animal species. Data for human and animal leptospirosis cases were gathered from the
government’s passive surveillance systems and presumptive infecting serogroups were identified
based on a two-fold titer difference in serogroups in the microscopic agglutination test (MAT) panel.
A total of 22 different serogroups were reported across both human and animal cases. Serogroup
Icterohaemorrhagiae was the most common among humans, while serogroup Sejroe predominated
among animal cases, particularly bovines. Each ecoregion had a large distribution of cases, with 51%
of the human cases in the Parana–Paraiba ecoregion, and 81% of the animal cases in the Savannah
ecoregion. Identifying and mapping the serogroups circulating using the One Health approach is
the first step for further understanding the distribution of the disease in the state. This study has the
potential to aid in guiding public health and agricultural practices, furthering the need for a human
vaccine in high-risk populations to complement control and prevention efforts.