TABLE 1. The most common Leptospira serogroups/serovars identified in animals in the Caribbean, 1979 – 2013.
Country |
Serogroups/serovars |
|---|---|
Barbados |
– Australis/unspecified (canines) – Autumnalis/Bim (rats, mice) – Ballum/Arborea (rats, mice) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Copenhageni (rats) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/unspecified (canines) |
Cayman Islands |
– Australis/Bratislava (canines) – Autumnalis/Autumnalis (canines) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Icterohaemorrhagiae (canines) |
Dominica |
– Autumnalis/unspecified (cattle, goats, sheep) – Cynopteri/unspecified (cattle, goats, sheep) – Grippotyphosa/unspecified (goats, sheep) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/unspecified (cattle, goats, sheep) – Sejroe/unspecified (cattle) |
Grenada |
– Autumnalis/unspecified – Cynopteri/unspecified (rats) – Hebdomadis/unspecified – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Copenhageni (rats) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Icterohaemorrhagiae (rats) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/unspecified – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Copenhageni – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Mankarso – Mini/unspecified – Pyrogenes/Pyrogenes – Sejroe/unspecified |
Guadeloupe |
– Icterohaemorrhagiae/Icterohaemorrhagiae (rats) |
Jamaica |
– Australis/Bratislava (pigs) – Canicola/canicola (cattle) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Copenhageni (rats) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Icterohaemorrhagiae (rats) – Sejroe/Hardjo (cattle) |
Martinique |
– Autumnalis/unspecified – Cynopteri/unspecified – Grippotyphosa/unspecified – Icterohaemorrhagiae/unspecified – Sejroe/unspecified |
Puerto Rico |
– Andamana/Andamana (canines), Icterohaemorrhagiae/Icterohaemorrhagiae (canines), Pyrogenes/Pyrogenes (canines) |
Saint Vincent |
– Autumnalis/unspecified (cattle, goats, sheep) – Cynopteri/unspecified (cattle, goats, sheep) – Grippotyphosa/unspecified (goats, sheep) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/unspecified (cattle, goats, sheep) – Sejroe/unspecified (cattle) – Autumnalis/autumnalis (canines) – Hebdomadis/unspecified |
Trinidad and Tobago |
– Icterohaemorrhagiae/Copenhageni (canines, rats) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Icterohaemorrhagiae (canines) – Icterohaemorrhagiae/Mankarso (canines) – Panama/Panama |
Source: Prepared by the authors from study data.