Chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology in Sri Lanka: Are leptospirosis and Hantaviral infection likely causes?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 91, Issue , 2016, Pages 16-19

  Gamage, Chandika Damesh ^a   Sarathkumara, Yomani Dilukshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology (CKDu); Hantavirus; Leptospirosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SRI LANKA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEPTOSPIROSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RISK FACTORS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84962821267     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2016.04.009     Document Type: Article

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