Abstract
Leptospires are divided into saprophytic, free-living species, such as L. biflexa, and pathogenics, such as L. interrogans, which causes Leptospirosis. This disease is a zoonosis of global importance recently included in the list of Neglected Tropical Diseases. Rodents play the major reservoirs of the disease in urban centers by allowing the colonization of leptospires in the proximal ren…