Passive surveillance of Leptospira infection in swine in Germany

Table 1 Collection of swine serum samples tested for leptospires by MAT

	Reasons for testing of individual samples			Total	Number of farms
	Monitoring	Reproductive problems	Unknown reasons	Total	Number of farms
2011	392	2514	3002	5908	856
2012	400	2422	2650	5472	797
2013	338	2249	2981	5568	718
2014	298	2087	2721	5106	659
2015	300	1582	2851	4733	529
2016 / 01 to 09	85	1163	1794	3042	394
Total	1813	12,017	15,999	29,829	3953¹

¹Because some farms sent samples in more than one year, this number of farms is higher than that of the different farms tested in the total study period

ISSN: 2055-5660