Weill Cornell science briefs May 2008

...is research team stationed at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Brazilian Ministry of Health in the city of Salvador, tested a group of 3,171 slum residents for leptospira antibodies a marker of past infection with the bacterium. The researchers identified several variables that raised the risk of infection within th...

New Approach Assesses Risk of Water-Borne Pathogen Disease

...in reaction (PCR) to measure and compare levels of leptospira in environmental surface waters at urban and rural...theses: first, that concentration of more virulent leptospira would be higher in urban than in rural environment...t the concentration and species of disease-causing leptospira in the water would be associated with both the ris...

Leptospira in Medical Products

Culture, Leptospira

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Leptospira in Medical Dictionary

Swamp Fever

...n by the political consultant. Information about swamp fever in the free online English ... swamp fever - an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to ... It's called " Swamp Fever ," and, as the lovely lobby poster you can view in the ... joystiq.com/photos/left-4 -dead-2- s...

Spirochete

...ochete causes damage by spreading to various ... INTRODUCTION Leptospirosis is a zoonosis with protean manifestations caused by the spirochete , leptospira interrogans. Synonyms for the disease include Weil ' s ... ...

Leptospira in Biological News

Separating the good from the bad

...n their tests, Stocker and Marcos used a non-motile mutant of the bacterium leptospira biflexa, whose entire body has the shape of a right-handed helix. They injected the leptospira into the center of the microfluidic device and demonstrated that they drift...

Bacterial slime helps cause serious disease

... cases are fatal. Rats and other mammals carry the disease-causing pathogen leptospira interrogans in their kidneys. When they urinate, they contaminate surface w...ucing a slime, in which the colony can grow unharmed. 90% of the species of leptospira we tested could form biofilms. It takes L. interrogans an average of 20 day...

Leptospira in Biological Dictionary

PFGE

...zed Nomenclature for PFGE Patterns. Role of PulseNet in Outbreak ... PulseNet International website ... trying to optimize the PFGE protocol of leptospira interrogans. Based on the other PFGE protocols of other pathogens ... PFGE allows investigators to separate much larger pieces of DNA than ... ...