Severe leptospirosis in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, October 2011
| Autor: | Pieter J. Wismans, Y van Beek-Nieuwland, Maris S. Arcilla, P J van Genderen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty biology Epidemiology Nausea business.industry General surgery Conjunctival suffusion Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Leptospirosis Laboratory testing Surgery Leptospira Virology medicine Vomiting medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Eurosurveillance. 17 |
| ISSN: | 1560-7917 |
| DOI: | 10.2807/ese.17.13.20134-en |
| Popis: | In October 2011, a case of leptospirosis was identified in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic to the Netherlands. The 51-year-old man had aspired muddy water in the Chavon river on 29 September. Twenty days later he presented with fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, arthralgia, headache, conjunctival suffusion and icterus. Leptospira serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae or Australis infection was confirmed ten days later by laboratory testing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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