Investigación Condiciones de salud Epidemiology of leptospirosis in Colombia between 2007 and 2015 Epidemiología de la leptospirosis en Colombia entre 2007 y 2015 Epidemiologia da leptospirose na Colômbia entre 2007 e 2015 Clara S. Arias-Monsalve1, Daniela Salas-Botero2, Maria Rita Donalisio3 1 Doctora en Ecología, Médica Veterinaria.Corporación Universitaria Remington. Medellín, Colombia.
[email protected]. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3875-1566 2 Especialista en Epidemiología, Médica Veterinaria. Instituto Nacional de Salud.
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[email protected]. ORCID: https://orcid. org/0000-0003-4457-9897 Recibido: 23/07/2019. Aprobado: 29/09/2020 . Publicado: 30/11/2020 Arias-Monsalve CS, Salas-Botero D, Donalisio MR. Epidemiology of leptospirosis in Colombia between 2007 and 2015. Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública. 2020;39(1):e339058. doi: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rfnsp.e339058 Abstract Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of global distribution (n=1747), Atlántico (n=1159); the incidence varied between 2 caused by the bacterium Leptospira. In Colombia, it has been (Arauca) and 465.4 (Guaviare) per 100,000 inhabitants. At the mandatory to report this disease since 2007. Objective: to municipal level, Cali had the highest number of cases (n=682), perform an epidemiological analysis of human leptospirosis in followed by Barranquilla (n=612) and San José del Guaviare Colombia at the national, departmental and municipal levels (n=448). The highest incidence was 1597.6 in Pueblo Rico for the period between January 2007 and December 2015.