ArticleAsian Pacific journal of tropical biomedicine2014
Interpretation of microscopic agglutination test for leptospirosis diagnosis and seroprevalence.
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- Molecular detection of a Leptospira lineage with high similarity to Leptospira kirschneri in human, environmental, and rodent samples from Gilan Province, Iran: an integrated field and laboratory investigation.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2026Article
- Host population dynamics influence Leptospira spp. transmission patterns among Rattus norvegicus in Boston, Massachusetts, US.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Detection and Determinants ofPublic health challenges · 2025Article
- Enhancing leptospirosis screening using a deep convolutional neural network with microscopic agglutination test images.Biology methods & protocols · 2025Article
- Study on Seroprevalence and Leptospiral Antibody Distribution Among Livestock Breeders and Farmers in Golestan Province.Veterinary medicine and science · 2024Article
- Identification of Dominant Leptospira Serogroups among Leptospirosis Cases and Their Clinical Outcomes: A Prospective Hospital-Based Study in Mangaluru, India.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Improved Antibody Detection for Canine Leptospirosis: ELISAs Modified Using Local Leptospiral Serovar Isolates from Asymptomatic Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Detection of Antibodies for PathogenicAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Leptospirosis in horses: Sentinels for a neglected zoonosis? A systematic review.Veterinary world · 2023Article
- Aptamer-based assay for rapid detection, surveillance, and screening of pathogenic Leptospira in water samples.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Prevalence of leptospirosis among patients attending renal and general outpatient clinics in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Leptospirosis in central & eastern Uttar Pradesh, an underreported disease: A prospective cross-sectional study.The Indian journal of medical research · 2022Article
- Absence of serological or molecular evidence ofOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Article
- Evaluation of a genus-specific rGroELScientific reports · 2021Article
- Prevalence of Malaria and Leptospirosis Co-Infection among Febrile Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2021Article
- Optimizing the microscopic agglutination test (MAT) panel for the diagnosis of Leptospirosis in a low resource, hyper-endemic setting with varied microgeographic variation in reactivity.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- High exposure to pathogenic leptospires by the population residing in dairy farms in Hidalgo, Mexico.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2021Article
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Abstract
Determination of antibody titer by microscopic agglutination test (MAT) has been used as a tool for leptospirosis diagnosis. Four fold or greater rise in antibody titers between acute and convalescent sera suggests recent Leptospira infection. In addition, results obtained by MAT have been used to predict infecting serovars. However, cross reactivity among various Leptospira serovars have been reported when patient sera were tested with a battery of Leptospira serovars. This study demonstrates cross- reactivity among several Leptospira serovars when MAT was performed on leptospirosis sera. The data support a role of MAT as a tool for diagnosis. However, for information on infecting serovars, Leptospira isolation and molecular identification should be performed.
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