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Using Death Certificate Reports to Find Severe Leptospirosis Cases, Brazil

Severe leptospirosis with pulmonary hemorrhage is emerging globally. Measures to control leptospirosis through sanitation depend on accurate case finding and reporting. Rapid death certificate reporting, plus necropsy of persons who died of leptospirosis, facilitates public health intervention and c...

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Autores principales: Spichler, Anne, Athanazio, Daniel, Buzzar, Marcia, Castro, Bronislawa, Chapolla, Erica, Seguro, Antonio, Vinetz, Joseph M.
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18258007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1310.070150
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author Spichler, Anne
Athanazio, Daniel
Buzzar, Marcia
Castro, Bronislawa
Chapolla, Erica
Seguro, Antonio
Vinetz, Joseph M.
author_facet Spichler, Anne
Athanazio, Daniel
Buzzar, Marcia
Castro, Bronislawa
Chapolla, Erica
Seguro, Antonio
Vinetz, Joseph M.
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description Severe leptospirosis with pulmonary hemorrhage is emerging globally. Measures to control leptospirosis through sanitation depend on accurate case finding and reporting. Rapid death certificate reporting, plus necropsy of persons who died of leptospirosis, facilitates public health intervention and could provide an important tool in assessing the global burden of leptospirosis.
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spelling pubmed-28515192010-04-15 Using Death Certificate Reports to Find Severe Leptospirosis Cases, Brazil Spichler, Anne Athanazio, Daniel Buzzar, Marcia Castro, Bronislawa Chapolla, Erica Seguro, Antonio Vinetz, Joseph M. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Severe leptospirosis with pulmonary hemorrhage is emerging globally. Measures to control leptospirosis through sanitation depend on accurate case finding and reporting. Rapid death certificate reporting, plus necropsy of persons who died of leptospirosis, facilitates public health intervention and could provide an important tool in assessing the global burden of leptospirosis. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2851519/ /pubmed/18258007 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1310.070150 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
spellingShingle Dispatch
Spichler, Anne
Athanazio, Daniel
Buzzar, Marcia
Castro, Bronislawa
Chapolla, Erica
Seguro, Antonio
Vinetz, Joseph M.
Using Death Certificate Reports to Find Severe Leptospirosis Cases, Brazil
title Using Death Certificate Reports to Find Severe Leptospirosis Cases, Brazil
title_full Using Death Certificate Reports to Find Severe Leptospirosis Cases, Brazil
title_fullStr Using Death Certificate Reports to Find Severe Leptospirosis Cases, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Using Death Certificate Reports to Find Severe Leptospirosis Cases, Brazil
title_short Using Death Certificate Reports to Find Severe Leptospirosis Cases, Brazil
title_sort using death certificate reports to find severe leptospirosis cases, brazil
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18258007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1310.070150
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