Discovery of a leptospirosis cluster amidst a pneumonic plague outbreak in a miners' camp in the democratic republic of the Congo

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1824-1833

  Bertherat, Eric ^a   Mueller, Melissa J ^b   Shako, Jean Christophe ^c   Picardeau, Mathieu ^d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Plague Reference Laboratory   (Congo)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Central africa; Leptospirosis; Plague; Pneumonia; Pneumonic plague

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PNEUMONIA; SERUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONGO; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIA; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT; COMPLICATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

CONGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAGUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893584136     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph110201824     Document Type: Article

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