Table 1.
Total number of samples tested from 2008 and positive results in the Lepto-MD assay by month.
Table 2.
Patient characteristics associated with 478 samples that tested positive and negative for Leptospira.
Table 3.
Comparison of Leptospira results for 478 serum samples tested with the Lepto-MD assay and MAT using titer thresholds for a positive result of ≥1:800 (definition of a confirmed case, ≥1:100, and ≥1:1,600.
Fig 1.
Leptospira CT values in the Lepto-MD assay for patients with recorded day of disease information.
Fig 2.
Leptospirosis cases and recorded rainfall in Rio de Janeiro by study month.
(A) Leptospirosis cases diagnosed by RT-PCR (blue), MAT (maroon), or both (purple) are displayed by study month. MAT results are shown for all samples from 2008. (B) Rainfall for 2008 (black circles and line) and the average rainfall for the years 2003–2013 (red triangles and line).