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Leptospirosis in Urban Wild Boars, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Jansen*

, Enno Luge†, Beatriz Guerra†, Petra Wittschen‡, Achim D. Gruber‡, Christoph Loddenkemper§, Thomas Schneider§, Michael Lierz‡, Derk Ehlert¶, Bernd Appel†, Klaus Stark*, and Karsten Nöckler†

Author affiliations: *Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany; †Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany; ‡Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; §Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany; ¶Senate Department of Urban Development, Berlin, Germany;

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Characteristics and titers of antibodies to leptospires of 25 seropositive wild boars, Berlin, fall/winter, 2005–06

Boar characteristics			Leptospira spp. serovar*
Sex†	Age, y‡	Place of death§	Australis	Autumnalis	Bratislava	Copenhageni	Grippotyphosa	Pomona	Pyrogenes
M	Adult	1	–	–	100	–	–	–	100
M	Adult	1	–	–	100	–	–	–	–
F	Adult	1	–	–	100	–	–	–	100
M	Adult	1	–	100	800	200	200	800	–
M	Yearling	1	–	–	200	–	100	100	–
M	Adult	1	–	–	200	–	–	200	–
M	Yearling	1	–	–	200	–	100	400	–
F	Yearling	1	–	–	100	–	–	100	–
M	Shoat	1	–	–	–	–	–	400	–
M	Adult	2	–	–	–	–	–	100	–
F	Shoat	2	–	–	–	–	–	100	–
F	Yearling	3	–	–	100	–	–	–	–
F	Adult	3	–	–	–	–	–	200	–
F	Yearling	3	–	–	–	–	100	–	–
F	Yearling	3	–	–	100	–	100	400	–
F	Adult	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	100
F	Adult	3	100	–	100	–	–	–	100
M	Yearling	3	–	–	–	–	–	400	–
NK	Yearling	4	–	–	100	–	–	–	–
F	Shoat	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	100
F	Adult	5	–	–	100	–	–	–	–
M	Shoat	6	–	–	100	–	–	–	100
F	Shoat	7	400	–	–	–	–	–	–
F	Shoat	7	–	–	–	–	–	800	–
M	Adult	7	–	–	–-	–-	–	–	100

*Microscopic agglutination test panel included Leptospira interrogans serovars Australis, Autumnalis, Bataviae, Bratislava, Copenhageni, Hardjo, Icterohaemorrhagiae, Pomona, and Pyrogenes; Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Tarassovi; and Leptospira kirschneri serovar Grippotyphosa. A titer of
≥100 or above was considered positive. The highest titers are shown.
†NK, not known.
‡Shoat, <1 y; yearling, 1–2 y; adult >2 y.
§Numbers correspond to areas shown in Figure 1.

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