Leptospirose em bovinos: revisão e aspectos reprodutivos

Abstract

Bovine leptospirosis is a disease that causes losses in the production of both beef and dairy cattle. With a good part of its symptoms already known, it also causes reproductive disorders. Although the literature mentions it, most of the time it’s related to premature calve, fetal death, abortion and weak calves. The objective of this work was, first, to carry out a general review about leptospirosis and, later, to highlight new studies to demonstrate that there are other aspects that needs to be consider. Recent papers relate bovine leptospirosis with subfertility and early embryonic loss in cattle. With these points presented, veterinarians and farmers can acquire more knowledge to prevent problems in reproduction and consequent losses.