Current status of leptospirosis in Japan and Philippines

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 399-413

  Yanagihara, Yasutake ^a   Villanueva, Sharon Y A M ^a   Yoshida, Shin ichi ^a   Okamoto, Yoshihiro ^b   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; Leptospira; Leptospirosis; Philippines; Serovar; Weil's disease

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; INACTIVATED VACCINE; LEPTOSPIROSIS VACCINE; RAIN; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFORESTATION; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEVER; FLOODING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHILIPPINES; PRISON; RODENT CONTROL; RODENT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER SUPPLY; ZOONOSIS;

HUMANS; JAPAN; LEPTOSPIROSIS; PHILIPPINES;

LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 34548851446     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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