The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.
Discontinued
Publisher:
Published by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine by Blackwell Scientific Publications [etc.]
Frequency: Bimonthly
Country: England
Language: English
Start Year:1907 - 1995
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0022-5304 (Print) 0022-5304 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 0406044 |
| (DNLM): | J40780000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01639249 |
| Coden: | JTMHA9 |
| Classification: | W1 JO966U |
Leptospirosis in Ethiopia: a serological survey in domestic and wild animals. Seven hundred and fifty-eight serum samples from domestic and wild animals in Ethiopia were tested for leptospiral antibodies by the microscopic agglutination test. The following percentages of seropositivity were obtained: horse (91.3 per cent), cow (70.7 per cent), pig (57.1 per cent), goat (47.3 per cent), sheep (43.4 per cent), camel (15.4 per cent), and dog (8.3 per cent). All 54 samples from birds and wild animals were seronegative. Most of the positive sera exhibited reaction to more than one serotype and antibodies to serotype butembo were predominant in sera of the majority of the exa...