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A short review on leptospirosis: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment
A short review on leptospirosis: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment
- Source :
- Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, Vol 11, Iss, Pp 100741-(2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2021.
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Abstract
- In the last few decades, leptospirosis has emerged globally as a fatal infectious disease. Yet, an understanding of the pathogenesis of leptospirosis continues to remain within the grey areas of scientific evidence. In a majority of the cases, the infections are asymptomatic. The benchmark test for leptospirosis is the microscopic agglutination test, commonly known as the MAT test. The standard of treatment is oral doxycycline, although penicillin and azithromycin can also be used. In this review, we aim to elaborately discuss the symptoms, diagnosis and the approved therapeutic regimen of leptospirosis.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
Renal failure
Epidemiology
MAT test
Azithromycin
Asymptomatic
Pulmonary hemorrhage
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Direct agglutination test
medicine
Leptospirosis
030212 general & internal medicine
Intensive care medicine
Doxycycline
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Penicillin G
medicine.disease
Penicillin
Infectious Diseases
Infectious disease (medical specialty)
medicine.symptom
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22133984
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....95995f120d800870d86d6d6777b6b113