Seroprevalencia de leptospirosis en médicos veterinarios expuestos al riesgo. Ñuble, Chile

Abstract

Leptospirosis is a anthropozoonosis of occupational character, which has been clinically and serologically diagnosticated in the country. In the present study a population of 74 veterinarians from the Province of Ñuble were analyzed, 54 of them were the exposed group and the other 20 conformed the control group. For the diagnosis, the microscopie agglutination technique was used; a 7.41% of prevalence was obtained. The serovars found were icterohaemorrhagiae (5.5%) and pomona (1.8%) and the antibody titer varied within 1/50 to 1/100. There were no positive reactions in the control group.