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Bovine leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic spp. The pathology and epidemiology of this infection are influenced by the numerous existing serovars and their adaptation to specific hosts. Infections by host-maintained serovars such as Hardjo are well documented, unlike those from the incidental ones.

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Nephropathia epidemica and leptospirosis in Champagne-Ardenne, France: comparison of clinical, biological and epidemiological profiles.

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis

July 2009

Service de Médecine Interne et des Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Reims-Hôpital Robert Debré, Avenue du Général Koenig, 51093, Reims Cedex, France.

In the present retrospective study, we described a series of 45 non-icteric leptospirosis and 44 nephropathia epidemica (NE) patients diagnosed in the northeast of France from 1995 to 2005 and compared their clinical picture and laboratory parameters, as well as some epidemiological data. Loin pain (P < 0.001), abdominal pains (P = 0.

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[Icteric Fort Bragg fever: a case report with nosological discussion].

Rev Med Interne

September 2004

Service de médecine interne, CHU de la Timone, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 5, France.

Introduction: Ictero-hemorrhagic leptospirosis is an endemic disease in France. Weil's disease, a form of leptospirosis, is well known. Fort Bragg fever is characterized by a constant pretibial papular lesion.

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Pediatric presentations of leptospirosis.

Indian J Pediatr

October 2002

Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital, Nungambakkam, Chennai, India. saralarajaje@yahoocom

Objective: Leptospirosis in children is an often under diagnosed condition due to the non specificity of the presentations except for the classical Weil's disease.

Methods: Children presenting with symptoms and signs suggestive of Leptospirosis were included in the study. Diagnostic criteria were fever, myalgia, conjunctival suffusion, Jaundice, headache, altered sensorium, seizures, bleeding manifestation and oliguria.

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The paper approaches the possible leptospirotic etiology of non-icteric or late icteric digestive manifestations: digestive hemorrhage, particularly epigastric, acute cholecystitis (non-lithiasic), acute appendicitis, acute gastroenterocolitis, etc., which can be indicative of an acute or latent (from 14 days to several months) leptospirosis. A number of 300 patients with high fever, epidemiological data relevant for leptospirosis and diagnosis upon admission to hospital were investigated using the work method presented in the paper.

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