Biodiversity of the Germs Involved in the Human and Animal Leptospirosis in Stray Dog of Bucharest Temporally Adopted by the Community.

A number of 103 ownerless dogs, not vaccinated against leptospirosis, accommodated at the testing moment in a community shelter in Bucharest, are tested for leptospirosis by the ultramicroscopic agglutination seroreaction with MAR type live antigen The results revealed that 36,89% of these dogs represent for humans and for domestic and farm animals a potential natural reservoir of infection with microorganisms of the Lesptospira genus. The Canicola serotype was identified in 81,57% of the positive cases and the Icterohaemorrhagiae serotype in 18,43% of the positive cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]