A TEN-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF HUMAN LEPTOSPIROSIS IN URUGUAY: AN UNRESOLVED HEALTH PROBLEM

Leptospira spp. are delicate bacteria that cannot be studied by usual microbiological methods. They cause leptospirosis, a zoonotic disease transmitted to humans through infected urine of wild or domestic animals. We studied the incidence of this disease in the Uruguayan population, its epidemiologi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Schelotto, Felipe (author)
Other Authors:	Hernández, Elba (author), González, Sabina (author), Del Monte, Alicia (author), Ifran, Silvana (author), Flores, Karina (author), Pardo, Lorena (author), Parada, Daniela (author), Filippini, Mercedes (author), Balseiro, Victoria (author), Geymonat, Juan Pablo (author), Varela, Gustavo (author)
Format:	article
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Human leptospirosis Bovine source Rainfall MAT
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/42611
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!