Abstract
Leptospirosis is an urban disease, associated with the presence of rodents, which appears with greater intensity in large centers and mainly in the rainy seasons (Silva, 1994; Ministério da Saúde, 1997). It is an epizootic, which has a variety of serovars associated with some species of animals, as for example, serovar canicola in dogs, serovar pomona in pigs, icterohaemorrhagiae in roden…