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CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NEW EPIDEMIC OUTBREAK OF HUMAN LEPTOSPIROSIS IN GREATER RECIFE, BRASIL, IN 1975
Author(s) -
Oliveira Virgilio José Coutinho,
Rocha José Maria Baracho,
Silva Geraldo Borges,
Cabral Carlos Luiz Nepomuceno
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1981.tb01128.x
Subject(s) - leptospirosis , outbreak , serotype , etiology , population , medicine , environmental health , demography , veterinary medicine , virology , pathology , sociology
— A brief report was presented on a new outbreak of leptospirosis among the population of Greater Recife in 1975 in the wake of the floods that struck the city and its survivors in July of that year. A total of 107 cases were recorded, of which 105 were identified by sero‐agglutination and 2 by hemoculture. Once again the serotype icterohaemorrhagiae was the predominant etiological agent, having been found in 55 cases, followed by ballum in 18, grippotyphosa in 9, and pyrogenes in 8 cases.