Leptospirosis in Guilan, a northern province of Iran: Assessment of the clinical presentation of 74 cases

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Mansour Ghanaei, Fariborz ^a,b   Sarshad, Ali ^a   Fallah, Mohammad Sadegh ^a   Pourhabibi, Arash ^a   Pourhabibi, Kaveh ^a   Yousefi Mashhoor, Mahmood ^a  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anemia; CPK; ESR; Guilan; Leptospirosis; Serum creatinine

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FISHERY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IRAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; RURAL AREA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 20344381579     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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