Human Leptospirosis
Human leptospirosis on Reunion Island, Indian Ocean: are rodents the (only) ones to blame?
... where human leptospirosis is ...confirmed human cases and in infected ...in human epi- demiology on Reunion Island, pinpointed by our data, deserves a specific ...
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Human leptospirosis in The Federated States of Micronesia: a hospital based febrile illness survey
... [11]. Human leptospirosis in FSM was first described in Kosrae State in 1990 ...of leptospirosis (involving different serovars, suggesting more than one independent intro- duction from animal ...
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Macroscopic Agglutination Test for Rapid Diagnosis of Human Leptospirosis
... of human leptospirosis was eval- uated by comparing it to an immunoglobulin M (IgM) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and to the microscopic agglutination test ...patients, leptospirosis was ...
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Prediction mapping of human leptospirosis using ANN, GWR, SVM and GLM approaches
... of human leptospirosis in Iran, but no definite report has been made about the current status of human lepto- spirosis distribution in the country ...[9]. Human lepto- spirosis, an endemic ...
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Human leptospirosis in Seychelles: a prospective study confirms the heavy burden of the disease but suggests that rats are not the main reservoir
... disease, leptospirosis is a good example of the One Health concept for it links humans, animals and ecosystems in a web of pathogen maintenance and transmis- ...highest human incidence worldwide, although ...
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Diagnosis of Human Leptospirosis by Monoclonal Antibody Based Antigen Detection in Urine
... Hybridomas secreting specific monoclonal antibodies (MAb) to all members of the genus Leptospira (clone LF9) and those that are specific only to the pathogenic species (clones LD5 and LE1) were produced. MAb LF9, which ...
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Epidemiological and Clinical Profile of Human Leptospirosis in North Chennai: A Study of 90 cases
... of life as well as to specific occupations. Thus when there are large number of rodents, stray dogs and wild animals, where people drink or bathe in untreated water, when sewerage and drainage facilities are inadequate ...
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Evaluation of New ELISA based on rLsa63 - rLipL32 antigens for serodiagnosis of Human Leptospirosis.
... Our results showed that the rLipL32+Lsa63-IgM- ELISA and rLipL32+Lsa63-IgG-ELISA had high sensitivity (96.62% and 92.31% for 1:50 dilutions, respectively) recognizing specific antibodies directed to Leptospiral antigens. ...
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Epidemiology of human leptospirosis in Malaysia, 2004–2012
... of leptospirosis cases, with most cases being recorded between 27 to 28 ◦ C ...to leptospirosis, where the pathogen survives and thrives at an average temperature of about ...
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Isolation of L interrogans Serovar Pomona in 14 Human Cases and an African Lion, All with Chronic Leptospirosis
... In this work, the first 14 isolations of Leptospira interrogans are reported and their characterization with monoclonal antibodies, obtained between 2002 and 2006, from 14 patients with chronic disease, which constitutes ...
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Evaluation of Asymptomatic Family Members for Leptospirosis in Patients with Symptomatic Leptospirosis
... of human leptospirosis were reported from 1947–64 in ...of leptospirosis acquired by swimming in contaminated water ...of leptospirosis to man was highlighted as a result of an investigation ...
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Importance of leptospirosis for human and animal health, present condition, problems and solution proposals in Turkey and the World
... affects human health and animal products are undisputedly necessary in human nutrition, it is concluded that human health depends on animal ...health. Leptospirosis, commonly present in many ...
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Leptospirosis in the Asia Pacific region
... regional human leptospirosis survey conducted in the Western Pacific Islands [52], among 263 cases of sus- pected leptospirosis cases from September 2003 to December 2005, 69 were confirmed from 7 ...
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A systematic review of human and animal leptospirosis in the Pacific Islands reveals pathogen and reservoir diversity
... on human leptospirosis in the PIs were retrieved, these studies probably under-estimate the true burden as leptospirosis is thought to be under-reported glob- ally, particularly in developing ...
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Leptospirosis vaccines
... [1-13]. Leptospirosis was ini- tially described as Weil's syndrome ...of human leptospirosis cases reported by Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China from January 2002 to October 2007 ...
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Seroprevalance of Leptospirosis in Sheep in Maku, Northwest of Iran
... Human leptospirosis is prevalent only in the northern provinces of Iran, but ruminants such as cows (Schonman and Swai, 2010), buffaloes (Denardi, et ...
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Leptospirosis: recent incidents and available diagnostics – a review
... Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT) is laborious MAT, described by Martin and Pettit is the most widely used reference method for the diagnosis of human leptospirosis. The MAT requires maintaining a panel ...
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Leptospirosis in the western Indian Ocean islands: what is known so far?
... clinical leptospirosis has protean manifesta- tions but generally causes a febrile illness that often, in its early phase, cannot be differentiated from other acute influenza-like fevers such as dengue, influenza, ...
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Review on leptospirosis in animals and human
... of leptospirosis is made by culture of Leptospira ...with human leptospirosis The clinical presentation varies from patient to patient; hepato-renal failure, myocarditis, severe pulmonary hemorrhage ...
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Correlation of Different Laboratory Parameters in the Diagnosis of Leptospirosis.
... Adolf Weil described leptospirosis as a disease entity in 1886. His name is still attached to a serious form of leptospirosis called Weil’s disease. traditionally attributed to rat transmitted infection, ...
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