Urban epidemic of severe leptospirosis in Brazil

Lancet

Volumn 354, Issue 9181, 1999, Pages 820-825

  Ko, Albert I ^a,e   Galvão Reis, Mitermayer ^a   Ribeiro Dourado, Cibele M ^b   Johnson Jr , Warren D ^c   Riley, Lee W ^d  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Sec of Hlth for the State of Bahia   (Brazil)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LIMI Ctro Pesq Goncalo Moniz F   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAZIL; BREATHING DISORDER; CHILD; DENGUE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OLIGURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0033523415     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)80012-9     Document Type: Article

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