Prolonged Leptospira Urinary Shedding in a 10-Year-Old Girl

We present a case of leptospirosis in a previously healthy girl following a trip to Costa Rica. While she was clinically asymptomatic, she had spirochetes cultured from her urine six weeks following her trip. Prolonged urinary shedding following infection with Leptospira is possible in humans and of...

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Autores principales: Chow, Emilie, Deville, Jaime, Nally, Jarlath, Lovett, Michael, Nielsen-Saines, Karin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/169013
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author Chow, Emilie
Deville, Jaime
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Lovett, Michael
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description We present a case of leptospirosis in a previously healthy girl following a trip to Costa Rica. While she was clinically asymptomatic, she had spirochetes cultured from her urine six weeks following her trip. Prolonged urinary shedding following infection with Leptospira is possible in humans and often has subtle manifestations in children.
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spelling pubmed-33500712012-05-17 Prolonged Leptospira Urinary Shedding in a 10-Year-Old Girl Chow, Emilie Deville, Jaime Nally, Jarlath Lovett, Michael Nielsen-Saines, Karin Case Rep Pediatr Case Report We present a case of leptospirosis in a previously healthy girl following a trip to Costa Rica. While she was clinically asymptomatic, she had spirochetes cultured from her urine six weeks following her trip. Prolonged urinary shedding following infection with Leptospira is possible in humans and often has subtle manifestations in children. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3350071/ /pubmed/22606527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/169013 Text en Copyright © 2012 Emilie Chow et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Prolonged Leptospira Urinary Shedding in a 10-Year-Old Girl
title_full Prolonged Leptospira Urinary Shedding in a 10-Year-Old Girl
title_fullStr Prolonged Leptospira Urinary Shedding in a 10-Year-Old Girl
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title_short Prolonged Leptospira Urinary Shedding in a 10-Year-Old Girl
title_sort prolonged leptospira urinary shedding in a 10-year-old girl
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/169013
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