In a new study, Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers unveiled a novel diagnostic method for detecting leptospiral virulence-modifying (VM) proteins in the blood and urine of hamsters, an advance ...

Leptospirosis is one of the diseases that is transmitted from animals to humans, mainly from infected rodents, and its ...

With no human vaccine available, early recognition and timely antibiotic treatment remain the best defence against this ...

As summer heats up and tourists flock to the California coast, beachgoers should be on the lookout for sea lions sickened by a recent outbreak of leptospirosis—a kidney disease that can result in ...

Map of New South Wales showing clustering of canine cases of leptospirosis in Greater Sydney and the South Coast (A), whereas human leptospirosis cases were mainly centered around the North Coast with ...

Health officials are observing an increase in leptospirosis infections, a bacterial ailment that tends to spike during the ...

If you have been keeping an eye on the news recently, you will have read about an uptick in human cases of leptospirosis being treated at the hospital. This is certainly newsworthy because it is a ...

Rats in Boston may be spreading a potentially deadly disease, according to a Tufts University study. The disease is called leptospirosis, which is caused by a bacterium called Leptospira. It is ...