Leptospirosis in Ukraine (Lviv Oblast): Clinical and Epidemiological Features

Autor: Aleksander Zinchuk, Olena Zubach, Oksana Semenyshyn, Lilya Vasiunets, Tetiana Telegina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
ISSN: 1557-7759
1530-3667
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2018.2375
Popis: The article describes the results of a retrospective analysis of medical records of 395 patients with a clinical diagnosis of leptospirosis treated at the Lviv Oblast Infectious Disease Clinical Hospital (Ukraine) between 2002 and 2016. The main risk factors for leptospirosis were contact with rodents or their excrements (26.84%) and bathing in ponds, small lakes, and reservoirs (10.63%). Among 276 patients in whom the anti-leptospira antibodies were detected by the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), the most common serotypes were Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae (33.33%) and Leptospira grippotyphosa (25.0%). The mortality rate was significantly higher in patients where leptospirosis diagnosis was established based on clinical symptoms without confirmation by MAT (15.13% vs. 5.43%, p
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