| percutaneous exposure resulting in laboratory-acquired leptospirosis -- a case report. | a screw-capped glass tube containing a leptospira culture accidentally broke and the laboratory worker who was handling the tube sustained a cut on his hand. the wound was flooded with the culture. the culture was that of strain mg 347 belonging to serovar australis recovered from a patient, and it had undergone 52 passages in ellinghausen mccullough johnson harris medium. the laboratory worker developed a headache 21 days after the accident and became febrile the next day. he was hospitalized f ... | 2004 | 15585507 |
| development of a multiple-locus variable number of tandem repeat analysis (mlva) for leptospira interrogans and its application to leptospira interrogans serovar australis isolates from far north queensland, australia. | leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by the genus, leptospira. leptospira interrogans is the most common genomospecies implicated in the disease. epidemiological investigations are needed to distinguish outbreak situations or to trace reservoirs of the organisms. current methodologies used for typing leptospira have significant drawbacks. the development of an easy to perform yet high resolution method is needed for this organism. | 2005 | 15987533 |
| [leptospirosis in children: a not infrequent disease]. | | 1978 | 16114366 |
| canine leptospirosis. | | 2007 | 17470062 |
| [weil's syndrome (leptospiral infection): a case report]. | leptospirosis is an acute zoonotic infection, caused by spirochetes of the genus leptospira. it is characterized by extensive vasculitis. it is usually transmitted indirectly, per contaminated water, rarely directly, through contact with infected animals. leptospira bacteria commonly enter the body through damaged skin or mucous membranes. the clinical syndromes may vary from a subclinical infection and mild febrile condition to severe clinical symptoms with jaundice and renal failure. | 2007 | 18265599 |
| leptospiral pneumonia. | severe leptospirosis rarely presents with primary pulmonary manifestations, without any associated jaundice or renal dysfunction. the authors report a nine-year-old boy who presented with complaints of abrupt onset of high fever; with myalgia, headache, and pain in right chest region, productive cough with hemoptysis and vomiting developing over the past 72 hours. chest radiograph showed consolidation in the right upper lobe with air bronchogram. a history of contact with sewage water and presen ... | 2005 | 15684465 |
| the first new zealand isolation of leptospira interrogans serovar australis. | | 1980 | 6928064 |
| clinicopathologic features and outcome predictors of leptospira interrogans australis serogroup infection in dogs: a retrospective study of 20 cases (2001-2004). | we retrospectively evaluated the clinicopathologic findings and outcome predictors in dogs with leptospira interrogans australis serogroup infections. | 2007 | 17338143 |
| an improved multiple-locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis for leptospira interrogans serovar australis: a comparison with fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis and its use to redefine the molecular epidemiology of this serovar in queensland, australia. | in this study, an improved multiple-locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis (mlva) method based upon a previously published method is described. improvements to the method included redesigned primers and pcr conditions, combined with pooled capillary electrophoresis using multicolored dyes. allele sizes were converted into an allele string, and each unique allele string was assigned a numerical mlva type (mvt). the improved mlva method was then applied to 96 previously characterized lep ... | 2006 | 17030915 |
| [two leptospirosis cases and review of the national literature]. | in this report, two cases of leptospirosis admitted to our clinic in the same periods, have been presented. the first patient was a 29 years old male farmer, and the other was a 44 years old male prisoner. both of them were from middle anatolian region with the similar clinical findings (subfebrile fever, gastrointestinal complaints, ichterus in sclera, leucocytosis, and increased levels of liver enzymes, urea and creatine). the diagnosis was based on the antibody positivities against leptospira ... | 2005 | 16358497 |
| electrocardiographic changes in hospitalized patients with leptospirosis over a 10-year period. | the aim of this study was to investigate the incidence and type of ecg changes in patients with leptospirosis regardless of clinical evidence of cardiac involvement. | 2011 | 21709630 |