Mesoamerican nephropathy: A neglected tropical disease with an infectious etiology?

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 671-675

  Murray, Kristy O ^a   Fischer, Rebecca S B ^a   Chavarria, Denis ^b   Duttmann, Christiane ^c   Garcia, Melissa N ^a   Gorchakov, Rodion ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^a   Jiron, William ^c   Leibler, Jessica H ^d   Lopez, Job E ^a   Mandayam, Sreedhar ^a   Marin, Alejandro ^b   Sheleby, Jessica ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ingenio San Antonio   (Nicaragua)

^c National Autonomous University of Nicaragua   (Nicaragua)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute interstitial nephritis; Acute kidney injury; Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology, CKDu; Hantavirus; Leptospirosis; Mesoamerican nephropathy; Nicaragua; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; BACKACHE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFESTATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MESOAMERICAN NEPHROPATHY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUGARCANE; TROPICAL DISEASE; URINE; WEAKNESS; ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPLICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; NICARAGUA; PATHOLOGY; SIGMODONTINAE; TROPIC CLIMATE; ZOONOSES;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MALE; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; NICARAGUA; SACCHARUM; SIGMODONTINAE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84943521179     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2015.08.005     Document Type: Editorial

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