Serological Analysis of Human Leptospirosis in the Philippines

Leptospirosis in the Philippines is an underrepresented disease. To achieve an accurate means of serodiagnosis, we demonstrated antibodies to the prevalent Leptospira serovars in sera of 71 patients from three major hospitals in Manila by the microscopic agglutination test and Western blot analysis....

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Veröffentlicht in:	Microbiology and immunology 2001-01, Vol.45 (1), p.93-95
Hauptverfasser:	Masuzawa, Toshiyuki, Dancel, Louella A., Miyake, Masaki, Yanagihara, Yasutake
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Agglutination Tests Bacterial diseases Bacteriology Biological and medical sciences Epidemiology Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Human bacterial diseases Humans Infectious diseases Leptospira Leptospira - classification Leptospira - immunology Leptospira - isolation & purification leptospirosis Leptospirosis - diagnosis Leptospirosis - immunology Leptospirosis - prevention & control Male Medical sciences Microbiology microscopic agglutination test Middle Aged Miscellaneous Philippines Philippines, Manila Sensitivity and Specificity Serologic Tests Serotyping Tropical bacterial diseases
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Zusammenfassung:	Leptospirosis in the Philippines is an underrepresented disease. To achieve an accurate means of serodiagnosis, we demonstrated antibodies to the prevalent Leptospira serovars in sera of 71 patients from three major hospitals in Manila by the microscopic agglutination test and Western blot analysis. Sera of 53 patients contained antibody against 8 serovars poi, tarassovi, manilae, pyrogenes, australis, grippotyphosa, javanica, and autumnalis.
ISSN:	0385-5600 1348-0421
DOI:	10.1111/j.1348-0421.2001.tb01264.x