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    Emerg Infect Dis. 20(8):1273-1279.
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    A small percentage of persons with leptospirosis, a reemerging zoonosis, experience severe complications that require hospitalization. The number of leptospirosis cases in the United States is unknown. Thus, to estimate the hospitalization rate for t...
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    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology.
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    Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that can cause serious illnesses such as kidney or liver failure, meningitis, difficulty breathing, and bleeding. Cases of leptospirosis can increase after hurricanes or floods when people may have to wade through...
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  4. Early Indicators of Fatal Leptospirosis during the 2010 Epidemic in Puerto Rico
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    Sharp, Tyler M.; Rivera García, Brenda; Pérez-Padilla, Janice; Galloway, Renee L.; Guerra, Marta; Ryff, Kyle R.; Haberling, Dana; Ramakrishnan, Sharada; Shadomy, Sean; Blau, Dianna; Tomashek, Kay M.; Bower, William A.;
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    PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 10(2).
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    Background : Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal bacterial zoonosis that is endemic throughout the tropics and may be misdiagnosed as dengue. Delayed hospital admission of leptospirosis patients is associated with increased mortality. : Methodology/...
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    Jansen, Andreas; Schöneberg, Irene; Frank, Christina; Alpers, Katharina; Schneider, Thomas; Stark, Klaus;
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    Emerg Infect Dis. 11(7):1048-1054.
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    Epidemiologic trends of human leptospirosis in Germany were investigated by analyzing national surveillance data from 1962 to 2003 and by conducting a questionnaire-based survey from 1997 to 2000. After a steady decrease of leptospirosis incidence fr...
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