SEROLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF HUMAN LEPTOSPIROSIS IN NORTHERN GREECE

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 244  (4) , 546-551
Abstract
Human blood samples (1069) were tested for the presence of C. F. [complement fixing] antibodies to leptospirae. Of these sera, 98 were from Weil''s syndrome patients. Of 98 patients, 13 had leptospirosis; 1 of these died. There were 460 sera from patients with febrile (acute) illness of unknown origin and 511 sera from patients with respiratory disease (especially influenza-like disease). None of these patients was positive for leptospirosis. Of 191 healthy people at risk for leptospiral infection who were examined by the microscopic agglutination test, a high percentage (14.1%) had antibodies against 1 or 2 leptospiral serogroups. The incidence of leptospiral infections in humans in Northern Greece is apparently higher than previously reported. The predominant serogroups were Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae followed by L. autumnalis and L. canicola.

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