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

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 has been observed only in the urban context. As a potential explanation for this epidemiological observation, we tested the h...

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Autores principales: Ganoza, Christian A, Matthias, Michael A, Collins-Richards, Devon, Brouwer, Kimberly C, Cunningham, Calaveras B, Segura, Eddy R, Gilman, Robert H, Gotuzzo, Eduardo, Vinetz, Joseph M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1551915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16933963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030308

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1551915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16933963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030308

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