Leptospirosis in Latin America

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-39

  Lomar, Andre V ^a,b   Diament, Decio ^b,c   Torres, Jaime R ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DE MOGI DAS CRUZES   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE INFECTOLOGIA EMÍLIO RIBAS   (Brazil)

^c FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE JUNDIAÍ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^e UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEPATOMEGALY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; REVIEW; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINE CULTURE;

EID: 0034104767     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(05)70216-6     Document Type: Article

References (91)

1. V.A.F. Alves L.C.C. Gayotto P.H. Yasuda Leptospiral antigens ( L. interrogans serogroup ictero-haemorrhagiae) in the kidney of experimentally infected guinea pigs and their relation to the pathogenesis of the renal injury Experimental Pathology 42 1991 81 93
2. V.M. Arean The pathologic anatomy and pathogenesis of fatal human leptospirosis (Weil's disease) Am J Pathol 40 1962 393 423
3. T.L. Avery Leptospirosis and mental illness N Z Med J 96 1983 589
4. E. Banfi M. Cinco M. Bellini The role of antibodies in the interaction between macrophages and leptospires Journal of General Microbiology 128 1982 813 816
5. S. Barkay H. Garzozi Leptospirosis and uveitis Annals of Ophthalmology 16 1984 164 168
6. T. Brito G.M. Bohm P.H. Yasuda Vascular damage in the acute experimental leptospirosis of the guinea-pig J Pathol 128 1979 177 181
7. T. Brito D.O. Penna S. Hoshino Cholestasis in human leptospirosis: A clinical, histochemical, biochemical and electron microscopy study based on liver biopsies Beitrage zur Pathologie 140 1970 345 361
8. J. Bruce Doxycycline therapy for leptospirosis Ann Intern Med 100 1984 696 698
9. B.J. Burke J.F. Searle D. Mattingly Leptospirosis presenting with profuse haemoptysis Br Med J 2 1976 982
10. Y.A. Chen Clinicopathological analysis of 12 cases of cerebrovascular leptospirosis Chinese Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry 23 1990 226 228
11. M. Cinco E. Banfi A. Furlani Cytotoxic activity of supernatant extracts of virulent and saprophytic leptospires Zentralbl Bakteriol 248 1980 260 267
12. M. Cinco E. Banfi M.R. Soranzo Studies on the interaction between macrophages and leptospires J Gen Microbiol 124 1981 409 413
13. M. Cinco E. Vecile R. Murgia Leptospira interrogans and Leptospira peptidoglycans induce the release of tumor necrosis factor α from human monocytes FEMS Microbiol Lett 138 1996 211 214
14. J.R. Cisternas T. Milstein-Kuschnaroff The effect of human leptospirosis on the composition and concentration of serum lipids and lipoprotein Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 20 1987 149 159
15. A. Davenport P.N. Bramley J.I. Wyatt Morbidity and mortality due to cerebral edema complicating the treatment of severe leptospiral infection Am J Kidney Dis 16 1990 160 165
16. De Brito T. C.F. Moraia P.H. Yasuda Cardiovascular involvement in human and experimental leptospirosis: Pathologic findings and immunohistochemical detection of leptospiral antigen Ann Trop Med Parasitol 81 1987 207 214
17. De Vasconcelos L.M. E.O. Cisalpino M.N. Vieira Anti- Leptospira agglutinins in different professional groups in the city of Londrina, Paraná Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 25 1992 251 255
18. De Vasconcelos L.M. Ramos-Vieira M das N. Survey of anti- Leptospira agglutinins in workers from the city of Londrina-Paraná, Brazil Rev Latinoam Microbiol 35 1993 153 157
19. D. Diament Plasma levels of tumour necrosis factor α in leptospirosis (Weil's disease) Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 28 1995 157 158
20. C.N. Edwards G.D. Nicholson C.O. Everard Thrombocytopenia in leptospirosis Am J Trop Med Hyg 31 1982 827 829
21. C.N. Edwards G.D. Nicholson T.A. Hassell Leptospirosis in Barbados. A clinical study West Indian Med J 39 1990 27 34
22. C.N. Edwards G.D. Nicholson T.A. Hassell Thrombocytopenia in leptospirosis: The absence of evidence for disseminated intravascular coagulation Am J Trop Med Hyg 35 1986 352 354
23. J.M. Estavoyer Serum lipids in patients with leptospirosis J Infect Dis 150 1984 963 964
24. J.M. Estavoyer E. Racadot G. Couetdic Tumor necrosis factor in patients with leptospirosis Rev Infect Dis 13 1991 1245
25. C.O. Everard E.P. Cazabon D.W. Dreesen Leptospirosis in dogs and cats on the island of Trinidad: West Indies International Journal of Zoonoses 6 1979 33 40
26. S. Faine Guidelines for the control of leptospirosis 1982 World Health Organization Geneva Offset Publication No. 67
27. S. Faine Leptospira and leptospirosis 1994 CRC Press Boca Raton, FL 353
28. R.D. Feigin D.C. Anderson Human leptospirosis Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci 5 1975 413 465
29. J.S. Friedland D.A. Warrell The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction in leptospirosis: Possible pathogenesis and review Rev Infect Dis 13 1991 207 210
30. O. Geszti C. Huewi-Lan T. Wei-Chi Studies on blood coagulation disorders in experimental leptospirosis Chin Med J (Engl) 75 1957 615 603
31. W.S. Gochenour J.E. Smadel E.B. Jackson Leptospiral etiology of Fort Bragg fever Public Health Rep 67 1952 811 813
32. J.C. Golstein Household pets and human infections Infect Dis Clin North Am 5 1991 117 130
33. H.O. Gsell A. Olafsson W. Sonnabend Intrauterine leptospirosis pomona Dtsch Med Wochenschr 96 1971 1263 1268
34. Guedes e Silva J.B. L.M. Paiva J.J.P. Silva Pathological involvement of human gastrocnemius muscle in leptospirosis (a study in 63 patients) Rev Bras Pesquisa Med Biol 131 1980 9 13
35. Guivarch G. Le Gall J.R. B. Regnier Etats de choc au cours des leptospiroses ictéro-hémorragiques Nouvelle Presse Medicale 11 1982 837 839
36. Heath C.V. Jr A.D. Alexander M.M. Galton Leptospirosis in the United States N Engl J Med 273 1965 915 922
37. L.A. Jackson A.F. Kaufmann W.G. Adams Outbreak of leptospirosis associated with swimming Pediatr Infect Dis J 12 1993 48 54
38. N. Jaroonvesama V. Viranuvatti K. Charoenlarp Coagulation studies in leptospirosis Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 6 1975 562 566
39. J.B. Khan A case of Weil's disease requiring steroid therapy for thrombocytopenia and bleeding Am J Trop Med Hyg 31 1982 1213 1215
40. R.E.J. Lee The chest radiograph in leptospirosis in Jamaica Br J Radiol 54 1981 939 943
41. I. Lessa E. Cortes Acidente vascular encefálico e leptospirose A Folha Medica, Rio de Janeiro 86 1983 489 487
42. A.V. Lomar Leptospirose: Diagnóstico e tratamento Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 20 suppl 1987 158 159
43. A.V. Lomar Estudo das alterações da hemostasia na Leptospirose 1989 Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Tese de mestrado 107
44. Lomar AV, Araujo MF, Diament D, et al: Estudo da “causa mortis” em 19 casos de leptospirose na U.T.I. do Hospital “Emilio Ribas.” In Congresso Brasileiro de Infectologia, 2°. São Paulo, 1983, Resumos, p 54
45. Lomar AV, Seguro AC, Diament D, et al: Leptospirose—Estudo retrospectivo de 115 casos no Hospital “Emilio Ribas.” I. Aspectos clinicos e epidemiológicos. In Congresso Brasileiro de Infectologia, 2°. São Paulo, 1983, Resumos, p 52
46. Lomar AV, Veronesi R, Brito T, et al: Leptospiroses. In Veronesi R, Focaccia R (eds): Tratado de Infectologia. São Paulo, Atheneu., 1997, pp 987-1003
47. V. Macedo J.F.M. Figueiredo E. Carvalho Coagulação intravascular disseminada na leptospirose Revista de Patologia Tropical 2 1973 366 363
48. P. Marotto M. Schettin D.L. Santos Outcome of leptospirosis in children Am J Trop Med Hyg 56 1997 367 370
49. M.G. Martins K.T. Matos da Silva M.V. Ocular manifestations in the acute phase of leptospirosis Ocul Immunol Inflamm 2 1998 75 79
50. F. Merien J. Truccolo Y. Rougier In vivo apoptosis of hepatocytes in guinea pigs infected with Leptospira interrogans serovar icterohaemorrhagiae FEMS Microbiol Lett 169 1998 95 102
51. D.M. Myers A.C. Caparo J.P. Moreno Isolation of serotype hardjo and other leptospirae from armadillos in Argentina Bull Pan Am Health Organ 11 1977 131 139
52. D.M. Myers V.M. Varela-Diaz The occurrence of leptospiral antibodies in rural inhabitants of Argentina Trop Geogr Med [Trop Med Int Health] 31 1979 269 274
53. L.E. Nery Clinical, radiological and functional pulmonary manifestations in patients with leptospirosis Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo 19 6 1977 366 373
54. A.A.C. Nicodemo N. Medeiros G. DelNegro Alterações hematológicas na leptospirose Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo 31 1989 71 79
55. A.C. Nicodemo M.I. Duarte V.A. Alves Lung lesions in human leptospirosis: Microscopic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural features related to thrombocytopenia Am J Trop Med Hyg 56 1997 181 187
56. K.M. O'Neil L.S. Rickman A.A. Lazarus Pulmonary manifestations of leptospirosis Rev Infect Dis 13 1991 705 709
57. 51Cr-labeled target cells of mouse ascites tumors Neoplasma 28 1981 705 708
58. O. Padilla C.H. Toledo I. Vidal Leptospirosis mortality in Cuba, 1987–1993 Rev Cubana Med Trop 50 1998 161 165
59. S.V. Paz-Soldán M.T. Dianderas R.S. Windsor Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola: A causal agent of sow abortions in Arequipa, Peru Trop Anim Health Prod 23 1991 233 240
60. S.C. Poh C.S. Soh Lung manifestations in leptospirosis Thorax 25 1970 751 755
61. F. Ramos-Morales R.S. Dias-Rivera A.A. Cintrn-Rivera The pathogenesis of leptospiral jaundice Ann Intern Med 51 1959 861 877
62. A.J. Rios G. Capone N.A. Paz Leptospirose. Observacoes sobre as mudancas dos padrões clinicos no Rio de Janeiro apos a grande epidemia de 1988 Arquivos Brasileiros de Medicina 64 1990 389 397
63. D. Rubel A. Seijo B. Cernigoi Leptospira interrogans in a canine population of Greater Buenos Aires: Variables associated with seropositivity Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica 2 1997 102 105
64. E.E. Sakata P.H. Yasuda A.V. Lomar The serovars of Leptospira interrogans isolated from cases of human leptospirosis in São Paulo, Brazil Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 34 1992 217 221
65. A.C. Seguro A.V. Lomar A.S. Rocha Acute renal failure of leptospirosis: Nonoliguric and hypokalemic forms Nephron 55 1990 146 151
66. T. Shimizu E. Matsusaka K. Takayanagi Biological activities of lipopolysaccharide-like substance (LLS) extracted from Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola strain Moulton Microbiol Immunol 31 1987 727 735
67. J.J.P. Silva Estudo do comprometimento pulmonar na Doença de Weil Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo 18 5 1976 387 392
68. M.V. Silva E.D. Camargo A.J. Vaz Imunodiagnóstico da Leptospirose humana através do teste ELISA-IgM, empregando-se diferentes preparações antigênicas a partir de sorotipos prevalentes de Leptospira interrogans Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo 32 4 1990 233 329
69. V. Sitprija Renal involvement in leptospirosis Robinson R.R. Nephrology 1984 Springer Verlag New York 1041 1052
70. V. Sitprija V. Pipatanagul K. Mertowidjojo Pathogenesis of renal disease in leptospirosis: Clinical and experimental studies Kidney Int 17 1980 827 836
71. M.V. Solbrig J.H. Sher R.W. Kula Rhabdomyolysis in leptospirosis (Weil's disease) J Infect Dis 156 1987 692 693
72. L. Souza M.C. Koury Isolation and biological activities of endotoxin from Leptospira interrogans Can J Microbiol 38 1992 284 289
73. M. Suárez R. Martinez P.E. Posada Human leptospirosis outbreak in the district of Ciego de Avila, Cuba Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 32 1999 13 18
74. B. Szyfres Leptospirosis as an animal and public health problem in Latin America and the Caribbean area Bull Pan Am Health Organ 10 1976 110 125
75. M.H. Tajiki R. Salomão Association of plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor α with severity of disease and mortality among patients with leptospirosis Clin Infect Dis 23 1996 1177 1178
76. J.R. Torres R. Isturiz A. Mondolfi Historia natural de la leptospirosis humana en Venezuela Boletin Venezulano de Infectologia 1 1989 27 30
77. K.J. Tracey The acute and chronic pathophysiologic effects of TNF: Mediation of septic shock and wasting (cachexia) Beutler B. Tumor Necrosis Factor: The Molecules and Their Emerging Role in Medicine 1992 Raven Press New York 255 273
78. R.T. Trevejo J.G. Rigau-Pérez D.A. Ashford Epidemic leptospirosis associated with pulmonary hemorrhage—Nicaragua, 1995 J Infect Dis 178 1998 1457 1463
79. A.E. Urich A.V. Lomar F.J. Ruiz Eritropoese na leptospirose Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 20 suppl 1987 139
80. T. Vihn B. Adler S. Faine Glycolipoprotein cytotoxin from Leptospira interrogans serovar copenhageni Journal of General Microbiology 132 1986 111 123
81. T. Vinh S. Faine B. Adler Adhesion of leptospires to mouse fibroblasts (L929) and its enhancement by specific antibody Journal of General Microbiology 18 1984 73 85
82. E.G. Volina L.F. Levina G.L. Soboleva Phospholipase activity and virulence of pathogenic leptospirae J Hygiene, Epidemiology, Microbiology and Immunology 2 1986 169 163
83. B. Wang J. Sullivan G.W. Sullivan Interaction of leptospires with human polymorphonuclear neutrophils Infect Immun 44 2 1984 459 464
84. G. Watt L.P. Padre M. Tuazon Skeletal and cardiac muscle involvement in severe, late leptospirosis J Infect Dis 162 1990 266 269
85. G. Watt Leptospirosis Current Opinion in Infectious Disease 5 1992 659 663
86. G. Watt L.P. Padre M.L. Tuason Placebo-controlled trial of intravenous penicillin for severe and late leptospirosis Lancet 1 1988 433 435
87. A. Weil Veber eine eigenthumliche, mitmilztumor, icterus und nephritis einhergehende, acute infectionskrankheit Deutsches Archiv fur Klinische Medizin 39 1886 209
88. J.D. Winter A. Richardson M.J. Lehner Lung abscess and reactive arthritis: Rare complications of leptospirosis Br Med J 288 1984 448 449
89. M. Younes-Ibrahim P. Burth M.V.C. Faria Inhibition of Na, K-ATPase by an endotoxin extracted from Leptospira interrogans : A possible mechanism for the physiopathology of leptospirosis C R Acad Sci III 318 1995 619 625
90. M. Zaltzman J.M. Kallenbach G.D. Goss Adult respiratory distress syndrome in Leptospira canicola infection Br Med J 283 1981 519 520
91. R.L. Zuerner C.A. Bolin Differentiation of Leptospira interrogans isolates by IS1500 hybridization and PCR assays J Clin Microbiol 35 1997 2612 2617