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Recent reports indicate that in Barranquilla, rodents, dogs, and humans have a high leptospiral seroprevalence; and amongst zoo mammals, nonhuman primates have a high prevalence of Leptospira spp. infection. We therefore sought to determine whether primates in captivity at the Barranquilla Zoo were exposed to Leptospira spp. and whether there was a probable causal transmission link between the primates and peridomestic rodents. Samples were collected from 29 captive nonhuman primates, 15 free-ranging rats (Rattus rattus), and 10 free-ranging squirrels (Sciurus granatensis). Serum samples from primates, rats, and squirrels were evaluated via microagglutination test (MAT) vs 24 reference Leptospira serovars. Blood and urine from the primates and kidney tissue from the rats and squirrels were cultured in Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris (EMJH) medium and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of lipL32 was performed to determine whether active infection was present. Leptospiral seroprevalence was found to be 66.7% (10\/15) in rats, 60% (6\/10) in squirrels, and 6.9% (2\/29) in neotropical primates. Ateles hybridus and Ateles fusciceps had positive titers to serogroups Cynopteri and Ictohaemorrhagiae, respectively. Of the rodents that had antibodies against Leptospira spp., 90% of the rats and 66.7% of the squirrels corresponded to the serovar australis. Interestingly, all animals were culture and PCR negative, indicating Leptospira spp. exposure in the absence of current infection. While their status as maintenance hosts needs to be investigated further, this is the first study to show leptospiral seropositivity in red-tailed squirrels (S. granatensis).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1638\/2019-0192","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,13]],"date-time":"2021-01-13T04:38:51Z","timestamp":1610512731000},"page":"780-788","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["LEPTOSPIRA SPECIES STATUS OF CAPTIVE NONHUMAN PRIMATES AND FREE-RANGING RODENTS AT THE BARRANQUILLA ZOO, COLOMBIA, 2013"],"prefix":"10.1638","volume":"51","author":[{"given":"Danielle","family":"Woolf","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carlos","family":"Sanchez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Viviana","family":"Gonzalez-Astudillo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mauricio","family":"Navarro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cristian Camilo","family":"Tapia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M\u00f3nica","family":"Franco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Javier Andr\u00e9s","family":"Bustamante","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Miryam","family":"Astudillo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jean","family":"Mukherjee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1213","reference":[{"key":"3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"G Andre-Fontaine, F Aviat, C Thorin,  \"Curr Microbiol.\"  71, \"Waterborne leptospirosis: Survival and preservation of the virulence of pathogenic Leptospira spp. in fresh water.\" 136 (2015)","DOI":"10.1007\/s00284-015-0836-4"},{"key":"18","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"DJ Richardson  and JL Gauthier  \"Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis.\"  3, \"A serosurvey of leptospirosis in Connecticut peridomestic wildlife.\" 187 (2003)","DOI":"10.1089\/153036603322662174"},{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"B Adler  and A de la Pena Moctezuma  \"Vet Microbiol.\"  140, \"Leptospira and leptospirosis.\" 287 (2010)","DOI":"10.1016\/j.vetmic.2009.03.012"},{"key":"2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"P Agudelo-Fl\u00f3rez, AF Londono, VH Quiroz, et al.  \"Am J Trop Med Hyg.\"  81, \"Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in urban rodents from a groceries trade center of Medellin, Colombia.\" 906 (2009)","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.2009.09-0195"},{"key":"4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"J. 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