Hernández CM, Mauri PJL, Vargas YJ, Hernández CM

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Leptospirosis is an infectious zoonotic disease. The way the human being can become sick is related to the natural environment and its quality.
Objective: To describe epidemiological aspects of leptospirosis and the influence of environmental factors on the disease incidence.
Methods: A bibliographic review was carried out considering the disease's clinical forms, diagnosis and preventive treatment, as well as the influence of environmental factors on the disease incidence.
Conclusions: Leptospirosis is a disease in which the primary care physician plays a fundamental role in having an epidemiological approach and being able to make a timely diagnosis when a patient is suspected with clinical symptoms, and the identification of risk groups, to guide the prevention measures related to the disease, because the causal agent uses the natural or man-made environment with favorable conditions to survive and pass to the susceptible host.