Leptospirosis: A worldwide resurgent zoonosis and important cause of acute renal failure and death in developing nations

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 1 SUPPL.1, 2009, Pages

  Cruz, Luzia S ^a   Vargas, Roberto ^b   Lopes, Antônio Alberto ^c  

^a Clínica do Rim e Hipertensão Arterial CLINIRIM   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chemoprophylaxis; Epidemiology; Leptospirosis; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; RAIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; POVERTY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; MICROBIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RODENT; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DOXYCYCLINE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; PENICILLINS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RODENTIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

EID: 80052812026     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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