Acute febrile hepato-renal dysfunction in the tropics: Co-infection of malaria and leptospirosis

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 694-697

  Baliga, Krishna Venkatesh ^a   Uday, Yanamandra ^a   Sood, Vivek ^a   Nagpal, Akhil ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Hepato renal dysfunction; Leptospira; Malaria

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; ARTESUNATE; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLOROQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INDIA; JAUNDICE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA SEROVAR BATAVIA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; SEROCONVERSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TROPICS; UREMIA; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84855457412     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: 14377780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10156-011-0220-7     Document Type: Article

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