Human leptospirosis in Croatia: current status of epidemiology and clinical characteristics

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 202-206

  Topic, Mirjana Balen ^a   Habus, Josipa ^b   Milas, Zoran ^b   Tosev, Elvira Celjuska ^a   Stritof, Zrinka ^b   Turk, Nenad ^b  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Clinics; Croatia; Epidemiology; Leptospira; Leptospirosis; Serovar

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BLEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROATIA; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDEMIC; ETHNICITY; FATALITY; FEBRILE ILLNESS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURITIS; PREVALENCE; RASH; SANITATION; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CROATIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 77149126212     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.05.018     Document Type: Article

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