prevalence and geographic origin of pigs with serological evidence of infection with leptospira interrogans serovar pomona slaughtered in abattoirs in victoria, australia. | a set of 10,440 sera was collected from pigs slaughtered at victorian abattoirs. these sera were subjected to the microscopic agglutination test for antibodies to leptospira interrogans serovar pomona. identification of the herd of origin was possible for 6511 pigs, and these were derived from 167 herds in victoria (84% of sera), from 32 herds in new south wales (8% of sera) and 29 herds in south australia (8% of sera). the overall prevalence of titres of 512 and above was 3.7%. this was higher ... | 1998 | 9791870 |