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SUBMITTER: Pelaez Sanchez RG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5146737 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 20161110 12
The region of Antioquia in northeastern Colombia has the highest number of reported leptospirosis cases in the country. It also shows high seroprevalence indexes in the general population and socio-environmental conditions favourable for the transmission of the disease between humans and animals. In this study, 25 Leptospira isolates from Colombia's Antioquia department were identified to the species level as L. santarosai (12), L. interrogans (9) and L. meyeri (4) using phylogenetic analysis of ...[more]