“…Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by Leptospira interrogans 10,14,15,18 . The severe cases are characterized by a high frequency of jaundice, acute renal failure, bleeding complications, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias and respiratory failure 6,10,17,19,20,22 . In Salvador, a large city located in the state of Bahia in Northeast Brazil, the disease is endemic with outbreaks occurring in close relation to the increase in the pluviometric precipitation 4,5,16 .…”