Towards the burden of human leptospirosis: duration of acute illness and occurrence of post-leptospirosis symptoms of patients in the Netherlands.

BACKGROUND:Leptospirosis is a global zoonotic disease. Although important for the assessment of the burden of leptospirosis, data on the duration of the illness and the occurrence of post-leptospirosis complaints are not well documented. Hence the main objective of this study was to estimate the occurrence of persistent complaints and duration of hospital stay in laboratory confirmed leptospirosis patients in the Netherlands during 1985 to 2010. Additionally, several risk factors potentially impacting on the occurrence of post-leptospirosis complaints were investigated. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDI... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Marga G A Goris
Vanessa Kikken
Masja Straetemans
Sandra Alba
Marco Goeijenbier
Eric C M van Gorp
Kimberly R Boer
Jiri F P Wagenaar
Rudy A Hartskeerl
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Reihe/Periodikum: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 10, p e76549 (2013)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Schlagwörter: Medicine / R / Science / Q
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076549