Leptospirosis

"Leptospirosis" 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.

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Infections with bacteria of the genus LEPTOSPIRA.

Descriptor ID	D007922
MeSH Number(s)	C01.252.400.511 C01.252.847.511
Concept/Terms	Leptospirosis Leptospirosis Leptospiroses Stuttgart Disease Leptospira Infection Infection, Leptospira Infections, Leptospira Leptospira Infections Mud Fever Mud Fever Fever, Mud Rice-Field Fever Fever, Rice-Field Rice Field Fever Cane-Cutter Fever Cane Cutter Fever Fevers, Cane-Cutter Swineherd's Disease Swineherd's Disease Swineherd's Diseases Canicola Fever Canicola Fever Fever, Canicola Leptospira Canicola Infection Infection, Leptospira Canicola Infections, Leptospira Canicola Leptospira Canicola Infections Leptospirosis Canicola Leptospirosis Canicolas

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Diseases [C]
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses [C01]
Bacterial Infections [C01.252]
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections [C01.252.400]
Leptospirosis [C01.252.400.511]
Spirochaetales Infections [C01.252.847]
Leptospirosis [C01.252.847.511]

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Leptospirosis
Weil Disease

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Leptospirosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Leptospirosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 19 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2012

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Year	Major Topic	Total
1997	1	1
2001	1	1
2002	2	2
2003	2	2
2007	2	2
2008	1	1
2009	1	1
2011	1	1
2012	3	3
2015	1	1
2016	1	1
2017	2	2
2018	1	1

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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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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.

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Cruz LS, Vargas R, Lopes AA. Leptospirosis: a worldwide resurgent zoonosis and important cause of acute renal failure and death in developing nations. Ethn Dis. 2009; 19(1 Suppl 1):S1-37-41.

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