Leptospirosis in Ukraine (Lviv Oblast): Clinical and Epidemiological Features
Autor: | Aleksander Zinchuk, Olena Zubach, Oksana Semenyshyn, Lilya Vasiunets, Tetiana Telegina |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male 0301 basic medicine Serotype medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Bathing 030231 tropical medicine Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae Microbiology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Virology Internal medicine Direct agglutination test Epidemiology medicine leptospirosis Humans Aged Retrospective Studies microagglutination test business.industry Medical record Mortality rate Original Articles Middle Aged 030108 mycology & parasitology medicine.disease Leptospirosis Infectious Diseases Infectious disease (medical specialty) epidemiology Female Ukraine business |
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 |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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