20 research outputs found
First report of Taylorella equigenitalis and Taylorella asinigenitalis natural infections in horses in Croatia
Multiple co-infections of rodents with hantaviruses, Leptospira, and Babesia in Croatia.
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Synthesis, Hybridization Properties, Nuclease Stability, and Cellular Uptake of the Oligonucleotide-Amino-.beta.-cyclodextrins and Adamantane Conjugates
Human leptospirosis in the municipality of São Paulo, SP, Brazil: distribution and trend according to sociodemographic factors, 2007–2016
The non-linear and lagged short-term relationship between rainfall and leptospirosis and the intermediate role of floods in the Philippines
Background: Leptospirosis is a worldwide bacterial zoonosis. Outbreaks of leptospirosis after heavy rainfall and flooding have been reported. However, few studies have formally quantified the effect of weather factors on leptospirosis incidence. We estimated the association between rainfall and leptospirosis cases in an urban setting in Manila, the Philippines, and examined the potential intermediate role of floods in this association. Methods/Principal findings: Relationships between rainfall and the weekly number of hospital admissions due to leptospirosis from 2001 to 2012 were analyzed using a distributed lag non-linear model in a quasi-Poisson regression framework, controlling for seasonally varying factors other than rainfall. The role of floods on the rainfall?leptospirosis relationship was examined using an indicator. We reported relative risks (RRs) by rainfall category based on the flood warning system in the country. The risk of post-rainfall leptospirosis peaked at a lag of 2 weeks (using 0 cm/week rainfall as the reference) with RRs of 1.30 (95% confidence interval: 0.99?1.70), 1.53 (1.12?2.09), 2.45 (1.80?3.33), 4.61 (3.30?6.43), and 13.77 (9.10?20.82) for light, moderate, heavy, intense and torrential rainfall (at 2, 5, 16, 32 and 63 cm/week), respectively. After adjusting for floods, RRs (at a lag of 2 weeks) decreased at higher rainfall levels suggesting that flood is on the causal pathway between rainfall and leptospirosis. Conclusions: Rainfall was strongly associated with increased hospital admission for leptospirosis at a lag of 2 weeks, and this association was explained in part by floods