Considerations on a new outbreak of leptospirosis in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1970
Vol. 32 No. 1-2 (1972), ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Vol. 32 No. 1-2 (1972)

Considerations on a new outbreak of leptospirosis in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1970

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
https://doi.org/10.53393/rial.1972.32.37029
Published 1972-12-29
Marcelo Oswaldo Alvares Corrêa
Instituto Adolfo Lutz
Saburô Hyakutake
Instituto Adolfo Lutz
Rinaldo de Azevedo
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Pernambuco e da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Recife
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Corrêa MOA, Hyakutake S, Azevedo R de. Considerations on a new outbreak of leptospirosis in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1970. Rev Inst Adolfo Lutz [Internet]. 1972 Dec. 29 [cited 2025 Jan. 13];32(1-2):83-7. Available from: https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/RIAL/article/view/37029
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Abstract

A new outbreak of leptospirosis which occurred in 1970 among the population of Recife, after severe floods, was studied. Ninety nine out of 102 cases registered were
confirrned by sero-agglutinadon test, one by necropsy and 2 by hemoculture. The predorninant causal agent was Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae (88 .cases), followed by L. canicola (6 cases) and L. grippotyphosa (5 cases). One strain of L. grippotyphosa was isolated by hemoculture, for first time in Brazil.

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