An urban outbreak of leptospirosis in Mumbai, India

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 194-196

  Bharadwaj, Renu ^b   Bal, Abhijit M ^b   Joshi, Suvarna A ^b   Kagal, Anju ^b   Pol, Sae S ^b   Garad, Gajanan ^b   Arjunwadkar, Vidya ^b   Katti, Ravindra ^a  

^a Health Services   (India)

^b Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; OLIGURIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0036957030     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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