Changes in epidemiology of leptospirosis in 2003-2004, a two El Niño Southern Oscillation period, Guadeloupe archipelago, French West Indies

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1407-1415

  Storck, C Herrmann ^a   Postic, D ^b   Lamaury, I ^c   Perez, J M ^a  

^a CIC EC 802 Inserm Hôpital Ricou CHU de Pointe á Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Cancer Registry of Guadeloupe Teaching Hospital of Pointe à Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CATTLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SEROLOGY; SWINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; GUADELOUPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MIDDLE AGED; RODENTIA; SEROTYPING; SWINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 52249086885     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807000052     Document Type: Article

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