Abstract

HERNANDEZ-RODRIGUEZ, Patricia; GOMEZ, A. Patricia  and  VILLAMIL, L. Carlos. Implications of urban and rural agricultural practices on the transmission of leptospirosis. Agrociencia [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.7, pp.725-741. ISSN 2521-9766.

Changes in agricultural and livestock practices and climate and geographic conditions in the tropics, associated to great biological diversity, favor the propagation of diseases, the appearance of new pathogens, or the reappearance of some that have already been controlled. Therefore, leptospirosis is an emerging zoonosis associated to flooding in urban and rural zones, affecting at least 160 animal species, and because water is an important transmission vehicle, it is necessary to perform inter-disciplinary work to minimize its occurrence and its impact on human and animal health, and especially on the ecosystem (“One Health”). Therefore, the objective of this essay was to analyze the implications of urban and rural agricultural and livestock practices on the transmission of leptospirosis. For this purpose a thematic review was carried out with databases from 2000 to 2015, which allowed analyzing the health restrictions in tropical agriculture, and contextualizing the implications of agricultural and livestock practices, urban and rural, on leptospirosis. The analyses performed showed the need for interdisciplinary studies to address the epidemiology of this zoonosis in an integral manner, with the participation of sciences such as microbiology, molecular biology, veterinary medicine, and bioeconomy, among other areas.

Keywords : urban and rural agriculture; health restrictions; leptospirosis; One Health.

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