Leptospirosis: an emerging global public health problem

P Vijayachari, AP Sugunan, AN Shriram - Journal of biosciences, 2008 - Springer
Leptospirosis has been recognized as an emerging global public health problem because of
its increasing incidence in both develo** and developed countries. A number of …

Leptospirosis in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical profile, treatment and outcomes

N Gupta, W Wilson, P Ravindra - Le Infezioni in Medicina, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction Leptospirosis is a zoonotic bacterial infection with significant mortality and
morbidity, especially in resource-limited settings. This systematic review aimed to study the …

2010 ACVIM small animal consensus statement on leptospirosis: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention

JE Sykes, K Hartmann, KF Lunn… - Journal of veterinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This report offers a consensus opinion on the diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, and
prevention of leptospirosis in dogs, an important zoonosis. Clinical signs of leptospirosis in …

A global one health perspective on leptospirosis in humans and animals

JE Sykes, DA Haake, CD Gamage… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Am Vet Med Assoc
Leptospirosis is a quintessential one health disease of humans and animals caused by
pathogenic spirochetes of the genus Leptospira. Intra-and interspecies transmission is …

Usefulness of serologic analysis as a predictor of the infecting serovar in patients with severe leptospirosis

PN Levett - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The diagnosis of leptospirosis is often made using the microscopic agglutination test (MAT),
in which live antigens representing> 20 serogroups undergo reaction with patient serum …

Microbiological safety of drinking water: United States and global perspectives.

TE Ford - Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Waterborne disease statistics only begin to estimate the global burden of infectious diseases
from contaminated drinking water. Diarrheal disease is dramatically underreported and …

Determining Risk for Severe Leptospirosis by Molecular Analysis of Environmental Surface Waters for Pathogenic Leptospira

CA Ganoza, MA Matthias, D Collins-Richards… - PLoS …, 2006 - journals.plos.org
Background Although previous data indicate that the overall incidence of human
leptospirosis in the Peruvian Amazon is similar in urban and rural sites, severe leptospirosis …

Leptospirosis: an emerging disease in travellers

C Lau, L Smythe, P Weinstein - Travel medicine and infectious disease, 2010 - Elsevier
A recent upsurge in leptospirosis in travellers has prompted the following review of the
epidemiology of this infection in humans. The available data from the published literature as …

Environmental exposure and leptospirosis, Peru

MAS Johnson, H Smith, P Joseph… - Emerging infectious …, 2004 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human infection by leptospires has highly variable clinical manifestations, which range from
subclinical infection to fulminant disease. We conducted a population-based, cross-sectional …

Randomized controlled trial of doxycycline prophylaxis against leptospirosis in an endemic area

SC Sehgal, AP Sugunan, MV Murhekar… - International journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
Leptospirosis occurs as seasonal outbreaks, lasting for about 3 weeks during October–
November in North Andaman. A randomized controlled trial was undertaken to assess the …