Increasing awareness of physicians against severe leptospirosis: A treatable but potentially fatal zoonotic infection

Leptospirosis is a worldwide, often severe and potentially fatal zoonotic infection. Here, we present the case of a 35-year-old man with severe leptospirosis infection that was identified early and was treated effectively, with a quite impressive complete recovery. Delaying of early diagnosis and tr...

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Autores principales: Kritikos, Konstantinos, Mililis, Panagiotis, Mpahara, Aikaterini, Kouvariotis, Georgios, Kritikos, Nikolaos, Chaliotis, Georgios
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026769
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.214955
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author Kritikos, Konstantinos
Mililis, Panagiotis
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description Leptospirosis is a worldwide, often severe and potentially fatal zoonotic infection. Here, we present the case of a 35-year-old man with severe leptospirosis infection that was identified early and was treated effectively, with a quite impressive complete recovery. Delaying of early diagnosis and treatment is crucial for the development of an unfavorable clinical course and increases the risk of a lethal outcome.
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spelling pubmed-56298812017-10-12 Increasing awareness of physicians against severe leptospirosis: A treatable but potentially fatal zoonotic infection Kritikos, Konstantinos Mililis, Panagiotis Mpahara, Aikaterini Kouvariotis, Georgios Kritikos, Nikolaos Chaliotis, Georgios J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Leptospirosis is a worldwide, often severe and potentially fatal zoonotic infection. Here, we present the case of a 35-year-old man with severe leptospirosis infection that was identified early and was treated effectively, with a quite impressive complete recovery. Delaying of early diagnosis and treatment is crucial for the development of an unfavorable clinical course and increases the risk of a lethal outcome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5629881/ /pubmed/29026769 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.214955 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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