Multi-organ failure, weeks after being exposed to murky water – rule out leptospirosis

Leptospirosis is a rare zoonotic disease which occurs in people exposed to contaminated water or/and animal urine. We report two cases of moderate to severe leptospirosis. The first case was a healthy middle-aged biology professor who recently visited his family in Jamaica and presented with multi-o...

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Autores principales: Singh, Jaskeerat, Singh, Gurkeerat, Khaliq, Fawad, Ferguson, Robert, Haile, Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28808510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2017.1336046
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description Leptospirosis is a rare zoonotic disease which occurs in people exposed to contaminated water or/and animal urine. We report two cases of moderate to severe leptospirosis. The first case was a healthy middle-aged biology professor who recently visited his family in Jamaica and presented with multi-organ failure. The second case was a 27-year-old police officer who was admitted for acute liver injury and thrombocytopenia after helping people evacuate during a flood/disaster situation.
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spelling pubmed-55382482017-08-14 Multi-organ failure, weeks after being exposed to murky water – rule out leptospirosis Singh, Jaskeerat Singh, Gurkeerat Khaliq, Fawad Ferguson, Robert Haile, Charles J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Reports Leptospirosis is a rare zoonotic disease which occurs in people exposed to contaminated water or/and animal urine. We report two cases of moderate to severe leptospirosis. The first case was a healthy middle-aged biology professor who recently visited his family in Jamaica and presented with multi-organ failure. The second case was a 27-year-old police officer who was admitted for acute liver injury and thrombocytopenia after helping people evacuate during a flood/disaster situation. Taylor & Francis 2017-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5538248/ /pubmed/28808510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2017.1336046 Text en © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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