Sporadic Urban Leptospirosis

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 794-798

  Vinetz, Joseph M ^a   Glass, Gregory E ^b   Flexner, Charles E ^c   Mueller, Paul ^d   Kaslow, David C ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; URINE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BALTIMORE; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RISK FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0030588643     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-10-199611150-00002     Document Type: Article

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