"Leptospira" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A genus of aerobic, helical spirochetes, some species of which are pathogenic, others free-living or saprophytic.
| Descriptor ID |
D007919
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.400.425.475.475 B03.851.475.475
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leptospira" by people in Profiles.
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Gorbea H, Garcia-Rivera EJ, Torres H, Lorenzi OD, Rivera A, Galloway RL, Sharp TM. Leptospirosis Cases Infected with Uncommon Serogroups, Puerto Rico, 2013-2015. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018 01; 98(1):258-261.
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Barragan V, Olivas S, Keim P, Pearson T. Critical Knowledge Gaps in Our Understanding of Environmental Cycling and Transmission of Leptospira spp. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2017 10 01; 83(19).
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Barragan V, Nieto N, Keim P, Pearson T. Meta-analysis to estimate the load of Leptospira excreted in urine: beyond rats as important sources of transmission in low-income rural communities. BMC Res Notes. 2017 Jan 28; 10(1):71.
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Barragan V, Chiriboga J, Miller E, Olivas S, Birdsell D, Hepp C, Hornstra H, Schupp JM, Morales M, Gonzalez M, Reyes S, de la Cruz C, Keim P, Hartskeerl R, Trueba G, Pearson T. High Leptospira Diversity in Animals and Humans Complicates the Search for Common Reservoirs of Human Disease in Rural Ecuador. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 09; 10(9):e0004990.
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Okello AL, Burniston S, Conlan JV, Inthavong P, Khamlome B, Welburn SC, Gilbert J, Allen J, Blacksell SD. Prevalence of Endemic Pig-Associated Zoonoses in Southeast Asia: A Review of Findings from the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 May; 92(5):1059-1066.
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Xu Y, Tao Y, Cheung LS, Fan C, Chen LQ, Xu S, Perry K, Frommer WB, Feng L. Structures of bacterial homologues of SWEET transporters in two distinct conformations. Nature. 2014 Nov 20; 515(7527):448-452.
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Wong M, Katz AR, Li D, Wilcox BA. Leptospira infection prevalence in small mammal host populations on three Hawaiian islands. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Aug; 87(2):337-41.
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Dechet AM, Parsons M, Rambaran M, Mohamed-Rambaran P, Florendo-Cumbermack A, Persaud S, Baboolal S, Ari MD, Shadomy SV, Zaki SR, Paddock CD, Clark TA, Harris L, Lyon D, Mintz ED. Leptospirosis outbreak following severe flooding: a rapid assessment and mass prophylaxis campaign; Guyana, January-February 2005. PLoS One. 2012; 7(7):e39672.
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Katz AR. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction: filling the gap for early leptospirosis diagnosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2012 May; 54(9):1256-8.
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Katz AR, Buchholz AE, Hinson K, Park SY, Effler PV. Leptospirosis in Hawaii, USA, 1999-2008. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Feb; 17(2):221-6.