Severe leptospirosis in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, October 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Arcilla, M S ^a   Wismans, P J ^a   van Beek Nieuwland, Y ^a   van Genderen, P J ^a  

^a Havenziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANURIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPTICEMIA; THROMBOCYTOPAENIA; TRAVEL; VOMITING;

EID: 84859128663     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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