Please tick one session theme:
One health
Outbreak response, control, extension and community work
Economics and population health
Clinical disease and diagnosis in humans
Leptospirosis in animals and diagnostics
Immunology and vaccines
Molecular typing and genomics
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Your abstract must be no longer than 250 words of text (excluding title, authors and institutions or affiliations, and up to 5 references). Abbreviations may be used but they must be spelt out in full at the first mention, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Your abstract must contain a title, written in Title Case and bold, as shown in the title above; all authors/presenters listed with their associated organizations/institutions. This should also be written in title case, as above. Titles, degrees and awards should not be included. The body of your abstract should be written in sentence case, Calibri size 10, left aligned and must be a maximum of 250 words. Paragraphs should be single spaced, left aligned and a 10 point space should be left between each paragraph. Margins should be as shown in this template and must not be altered.
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EXAMPLE:
Please tick one session theme:
One health
Outbreak response, control, extension and community work
Economics and population health
Clinical disease and diagnosis in humans
Leptospirosis in animals and diagnostics
Immunology and vaccines
Molecular typing and genomics
I declare that I reside in a low-middle income location and therefore apply to participate in the contest for subsidized conference participation. I am aware that a travel award is competitive and accept the outcome of the panel assessment of this abstract.
Exposure sources of human leptospirosis in A-land, B-land and C-land
Smith A1, Cooper B2, Lopez C1
1* Dream University, Dream City, Dreamland;
2 Name Institute, Name City, Name Land
Background: Human leptospirosis is caused by exposure to domestic livestock, rodents or other wildlife species (X-man et a. 2005). This presentation summarises methodology and findings of source attribution studies in Country_A, Country_B, Country_C, with different eco-climatic environments and high endemic levels of human leptospirosis (OIE 2016).
Methods: In Country_A, abattoir workers were tested serologically and interviewed for preceding exposure and flu-like signs of illness. Febrile patients in Country_B were enrolled in hospitals, tested for 20 serovars and re-tested and interviewed at home to ascertain clinical leptospirosis along with in-contact domestic animals. A case-control study in Country_C tested five domestic animal species and rodents sharing the same household of humans who were sero-positive (cases) or sero-negative (control) in a preceding cross-sectional survey.
Results: Sero-conversion (11%) of abattoir workers in Country_A was higher at the front end of the slaughter board than down the rear end or in rooms outside the main slaughter board. Proportional similarity index analysis (Aperson 1995) showed that febrile patients in Nepal were likely to have acquired infections from domestic ruminants but unlikely from rodents dogs or cats. In Fiji, rodents and dogs, but not pigs, were likely reservoirs for human infections.
Conclusions: A rational epidemiological survey design with appropriate methods for selecting the source population, pathogen typing and data analysis can reveal specific transmission pattern which are essential prerequisites for strategic interventions to control clinical leptospirosis in humans.
REFERENCES
Aperson IB. Human resources for controlling leptospirosis in Uttar Pradesh, India. Proc. 17th Indian One Health Workshop, New Delhi, India, pp. 7-11, 1995.
OIE WAHIS Interface, country information, disease information. http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Diseaseinformation/statusdetail, 2016.
Xman JP, Ylady ZM. Utilization of environmental sampling to identify Leptospira in water and soil by quantitative-PCR. J. Environmental Sci. 24(6):23-26, 2005.
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New Zealand Geothermal Workshop 2009 Proceedings
16 – 18 November 2009
Rotorua, New Zealand