Abstract
Leptospirosis is a zoonosis of global importance that has been considered one of the leading emerging infectious diseases in the last ten years. It is caused by a group of pathogenic bacteria of the genus Leptospira (Bharti et al., 2003). In urban centers, rodents play the major reservoirs of the disease by allowing the colonization of leptospires in the proximal renal tubules and excreti…