Bal A M, Bharadwaj R S, Joshi S A, Kagal A S, Arjunwadkar V P
Department of Microbiology, B.J. Medical College, Pune, India.
Indian J Med Res. 2002 Jan;115:14-6.
Leptospirosis is a disease with protean manifestations. The present study was conducted in Pune to examine the possibility of leptospiral infection among a group of patients with fever of undetermined origin and to identify the common infecting serovars. Serological evidence of leptospirosis was found in 22 of the 118 (18.6%) patients with the help of microagglutination test (MAT) using a battery of 9 antigens. The serovars responsible for infection included autumnalis in eight cases, copenhageni in six, pomona in three, grippotyphosa in two and australis, batavia and canicola in one case each. Thus, there appears to be a focus of leptospirosis in and around Pune with autumnalis and copenhagni as the common infecting serovars.
钩端螺旋体病是一种临床表现多样的疾病。本研究在浦那进行，旨在调查一组不明原因发热患者中钩端螺旋体感染的可能性，并确定常见的感染血清型。在118例患者中的22例（18.6%）通过使用9种抗原的微量凝集试验（MAT）发现了钩端螺旋体病的血清学证据。引起感染的血清型包括秋季型8例、哥本哈根型6例、波摩那型3例、犬型2例，以及澳洲型、巴达维亚型和犬黄疸出血型各1例。因此，在浦那及其周边地区似乎存在一个钩端螺旋体病疫源地，秋季型和哥本哈根型为常见的感染血清型。
