| prevalence of leptospiral agglutinins among conservancy workers in madras city, india. | in a study of 584 corporation conservancy (sanitation) workers who lived mostly in slums, and who worked in four corporation circles of madras city, india, 192 (32.9%) were found to be positive for agglutinins to leptospira interrogans. seropositivity prevalence increased with age, but was similar in males and females except in the youngest age group, where males predominated. prevalence in the four study areas ranged between 17.8 and 40.5% (p < 0.01). among 152 sera in which one serogroup predo ... | 1993 | 8429573 |
| multilocus sequence typing (mlst) of leptospiral strains isolated from two geographic locations of tamil nadu, india. | here the rodent carrier status for the transmission of human leptospirosis in tiruchirappalli, district, tamil nadu, india was assessed. the predominantly circulating leptospiral sts were recognized by multilocus sequence typing (mlst). a total of 113 rodents were trapped from different provinces of the tiruchirappalli district. the most prevalent rodent was bandicota bengalensis (37.2%), and of the total, 52.2% (n=59) rodents were found to be positive for leptospiral 16s rrna. these results wer ... | 2016 | 26577860 |
| cloning, expression, and homology modeling of groel protein from leptospira interrogans serovar autumnalis strain n2. | leptospirosis is an infectious bacterial disease caused by leptospira species. in this study, we cloned and sequenced the gene encoding the immunodominant protein groel from l. interrogans serovar autumnalis strain n2, which was isolated from the urine of a patient during an outbreak of leptospirosis in chennai, india. this groel gene encodes a protein of 60 kda with a high degree of homology (99% similarity) to those of other leptospiral serovars. recombinant groel was overexpressed in escheric ... | 2011 | 22196358 |
| leptospirosis in madras--a clinical and serological study. | leptospirosis was confirmed by microscopic agglutination test (mat) and/or elisa in 57 patients admitted to the government general hospital, madras, india, during november and december of 1990 and 1991 with symptomatology suggestive of the disease. fifty (88%) of the 57 cases were males; the mean age of all the cases was 39.6 years (range 17-72). the main clinical features were: fever 100% jaundice 84%, myalgia 82%, acute renal failure 72% and conjunctival suffusion 58%. non-azotemic jaundice oc ... | 1995 | 8713215 |