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INTRODUCTION Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of increasing global importance. It has a considerable public health and economic impact. Primarily, leptospirosis is an occupational disease affecting many labourers (e.g. rice field workers, [cattle] farmers, sugarcane cutters, fishermen, meat- and sewer workers) in their productive age. Apart from the costs of treatment, this generates economic losses by a decreased income both at the personal and national level. Leptospirosis also is a disease of animals affecting many domestic and farm animals. There is an enormous economic impact on the international trade of animals and semen. Economic losses are also caused by cost for treatment and control and by reduced milk yields and reproductive failures.

Palabras clave: Leptospirosis zoonotic.

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Vol. 57 Núm.1. Enero-Abril 2005 Pags. 7-10 Rev Cubana Med Trop 2005; 57(1)