Leptospirosis masquerading as infectious enteritis

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-91

  Paz, Alona ^a   Krimerman, Shelli ^a   Potasman, Israel ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Gastroenteritis; Leptospirosis; Thailand; Traveler

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CREATININE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CONVALESCENCE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTERITIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; THAILAND; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VOMITING;

EID: 3543144803     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2004.03.006     Document Type: Article

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