Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in Urban Rodents from a Groceries Trade Center of Medellín, Colombia

ABSTRACT: Leptospirosis is a widely distributed zoonosis, and rats are its most common source of infection. Our goal was to determine the frequency for Leptospira infection in rodents in a farmers market in the city of Medellin. We performed a descriptive transversal study sampling 254 rodents. Rode...

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Autores:
Londoño Barbarán, Andrés Felipe
Agudelo Flórez, Piedad
Quiroz Herrera, Víctor Hugo
Ángel, Juan Camilo
Moreno, Natalí
Loaiza Echeverri, Erica Tatiana
Muñoz González, Luis Felipe
Rodas González, Juan David
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2009
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/31975
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/10495/31975
Palabra clave:
Leptospira
Leptospirosis
Enfermedades de los Roedores
Rodent Diseases
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/co/