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Seropositivity for antibodies against <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic> serovars was determined by use of a cutoff titer of \u2265 1:1,600 to reduce the possible impact of postvaccinal antibodies on results. Correlations between results for all possible pairs of serovars were calculated by ordinal ranking of positive (\u2265 1:100) antibody titer results.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p><jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>\u20142,680 samples (8.1%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 7.8% to 8.4%) were seropositive for antibodies against <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic> serovars. The highest percentage of positive MAT results was for the year 2007 (10.2%; 95% CI, 9.5% to 10.9%) and for the months of November and December during the study period. Antibodies were most common against serovars Autumnalis, Grippotyphosa, Pomona, and Bratislava. Seroprevalence of leptospirosis was lowest for dogs &gt; 10 years of age but was similar across other age strata.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions and Clinical Relevance<\/jats:bold>\u2014Leptospirosis can affect dogs of small and large breeds and various ages. Although an increase in proportions of positive MAT results was evident in the fall, monthly and annual variations suggested potential exposure in all months. Because of the limitations of MAT results and the limited number of serovars used in the test, bacterial culture should be used to identify infective <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic> serovars.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2460\/javma.237.3.293","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,12]],"date-time":"2022-01-12T13:03:30Z","timestamp":1641992610000},"page":"293-298","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":42,"title":["Detection of antibodies against Leptospira serovars via microscopic agglutination tests in dogs in the United States, 2000\u20132007"],"prefix":"10.2460","volume":"237","author":[{"given":"Raju","family":"Gautam","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ching-Ching","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lynn 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