Risk factors and reservoir species for leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
Leptospirosis is an emerging infectious disease in Sri Lanka. The outbreak of leptospirosis that has been sustained since 2008 is the second largest outbreak of leptospirosis that has been reported worldwide; however, the reasons for the increasing incidence in recents years are not adequately explained. This project combines a case-control study of hospital patients with a serosurvey of the livestock and dogs belonging to the households of the study participants. The results will be used to formulate hypotheses about the transmission of the endemic leptospiral pathogens from animals to humans, and about environmental sources of human infection. View preliminary results.
