Weil’s Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient

Leptospirosis is a zoonosis caused by the spirochete Leptospira. Most cases of leptospirosis are mild to moderate and self-limited. The course of disease, however, may be complicated by multiorgan dysfunction with liver and kidney failure causing Weil’s disease. Leptospirosis is also rare among HIV-...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Duc B, Chaparala, Swethapriya, Morel, Laurent, Bueno, Yolin, Lovell, Roger D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33954063
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14241
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author Nguyen, Duc B
Chaparala, Swethapriya
Morel, Laurent
Bueno, Yolin
Lovell, Roger D
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Chaparala, Swethapriya
Morel, Laurent
Bueno, Yolin
Lovell, Roger D
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description Leptospirosis is a zoonosis caused by the spirochete Leptospira. Most cases of leptospirosis are mild to moderate and self-limited. The course of disease, however, may be complicated by multiorgan dysfunction with liver and kidney failure causing Weil’s disease. Leptospirosis is also rare among HIV-infected patients. We report a case of an HIV-infected patient with Weil’s disease.
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spelling pubmed-80882642021-05-04 Weil’s Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient Nguyen, Duc B Chaparala, Swethapriya Morel, Laurent Bueno, Yolin Lovell, Roger D Cureus Internal Medicine Leptospirosis is a zoonosis caused by the spirochete Leptospira. Most cases of leptospirosis are mild to moderate and self-limited. The course of disease, however, may be complicated by multiorgan dysfunction with liver and kidney failure causing Weil’s disease. Leptospirosis is also rare among HIV-infected patients. We report a case of an HIV-infected patient with Weil’s disease. Cureus 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8088264/ /pubmed/33954063 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14241 Text en Copyright © 2021, Nguyen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Nguyen, Duc B
Chaparala, Swethapriya
Morel, Laurent
Bueno, Yolin
Lovell, Roger D
Weil’s Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient
title Weil’s Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient
title_full Weil’s Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient
title_fullStr Weil’s Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient
title_full_unstemmed Weil’s Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient
title_short Weil’s Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient
title_sort weil’s disease in an hiv-infected patient
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33954063
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14241
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