Case report: Case series of fatal Leptospira spp./dengue virus co-infections - Puerto Rico, 2010-2012

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 760-765

  Pérez Rodríguez, Nicole M ^a   Galloway, Renee ^b   Blau, Dianna M ^b   Traxler, Rita ^b   Bhatnagar, Julu ^b   Zaki, Sherif R ^b   Rivera, Aidsa ^a   Torres, Jose V ^d   Noyd, David ^a   Santiago Albizu, Xavier E ^c   García, Brenda Rivera ^e   Tomashek, Kay M ^a   Bower, William A ^b   Sharp, Tyler M ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (Puerto Rico)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Hospital Episcopal San Lucas   (Puerto Rico)

^d Institute of Forensic Sciences of Puerto Rico   (Puerto Rico)

^e Epidemiology and Research Office Puerto Rico Department of Health Medical Center Area   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FIBRIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NORADRENALIN; OSELTAMIVIR; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARM SWELLING; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCITES; ATELECTASIS; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BRONCHITIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; CRACKLE; DEATH; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 4; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECCHYMOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEVER; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEART ARREST; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATURIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; JAUNDICE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER NECROSIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALAISE; MALE; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOPERICARDIUM; PUERTO RICO; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDATION; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; TRACHEA INJURY; URINALYSIS; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT; DENGUE VIRUS; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOSPIRA; MICROBIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

DENGUE VIRUS; LEPTOSPIRA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COINFECTION; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUERTO RICO; STEROIDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907698395     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: 14761645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0220     Document Type: Article

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