| Literature DB >> 15996738 |
F Sebnem Erdinc1, Suda Tekin Koruk, Cigdem Ataman Hatipoglu, Sami Kinikli, Ali Pekcan Demiroz.
Abstract
Leptospirosis is an acute generalized infectious disease, caused by spirochaetes, Leptospira interrogans. The severity of the disease ranges from an asymptomatic subclinical course to a fatal outcome. The three cases presented here were diagnosed serologically and had thrombocytopenia and acute renal failure as complication of anicteric leptospirosis. Our first case admitted with clinical presentation of pneumonia but clinical progress and laboratory findings made us to consider leptospirosis. The other two cases presented with aseptic meningitis were diagnosed as anicteric leptospirosis by the serological test results. One of the cases had fatal outcome but could not be strictly correlated with leptospirosis.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15996738 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.05.015
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect ISSN: 0163-4453 Impact factor: 6.072