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Leptospirosis is an illness caused by the bacteria Leptospira. You can get leptospirosis after getting water or soil contaminated by animal pee (urine) in your nose, your mouth, your eyes or a break in your skin.
10 Σεπ 2024 · Leptospirosis is caused by an infection with the spirochete bacterium Leptospira and is most often spread through exposure to the urine of infected animals either from direct contact or from contact with soil or water contaminated by the urine.
The traditional system divided the genus into 2 species: the pathogenic Leptospira interrogans and the nonpathogenic Leptospira biflexa. These species were divided further into...
31 Οκτ 2022 · Leptospirosis is a zoonosis with protean clinical manifestations caused by pathogenic spirochetes of the genus Leptospira. Synonyms for the disease include Weil's disease, Weil-Vasiliev disease, Swineherd's disease, rice-field fever, waterborne fever, nanukayami fever, cane-cutter fever, swamp fever, mud fever, Fort Bragg fever, Stuttgart ...
Symptoms can include fever, headache, myalgia (typically of the calves and lower back), conjunctival suffusion, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, cough, and sometimes a skin rash.
9 Αυγ 2023 · Can present with an extensive spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from subclinical illness, in approximately 90% of cases, to severe disease forms, which include renal failure, pulmonary haemorrhage, and respiratory failure and have a case fatality of 5% to >50%.
Leptospirosis is an infection caused by one of several pathogenic serotypes of the spirochete Leptospira. Symptoms are biphasic. Both phases involve acute febrile episodes; the second phase sometimes includes hepatic, pulmonary, renal, and meningeal involvement. Diagnosis is by culture and serologic testing.
