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Factors Associated with Severe Leptospirosis, Martinique, 2010–2013

Authors :
Mathieu Picardeau
Isabelle Lamaury
Guillaume Hurtrel
Jean-Marie Delord
Ruddy Valentino
Roland Martinez
Pascale Bourhy
Patrick Hochedez
Hossein Mehdaoui
Claude Olive
Rafaelle Théodose
Nicolas Vignier
Cécile Herrmann
Raymond Césaire
André Cabié
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Martinique [Fort-de-France, Martinique]
Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)
Centre Collaborateur FAO/OMS pour l'épidémiologie de la leptospirose
Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)
Centre National de Référence de la Leptospirose - National Reference Center Leptospirosis (CNR)
Biologie des Spirochètes / Biology of Spirochetes
Hôpital Avicenne [AP-HP]
Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)
Centre hospitalier de Trinité MARTINIQUE
Centre hospitalier du Lamentin MARTINIQUE
CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe]
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
We also thank the French Ministry of Health with the participation of the Groupement Interrégional de Recherche Clinique et d’Innovation Sud-Ouest Outre-Mer for funding and the Direction de la Recherche Clinique et de Innovation of the University Hospital of Fort-de-France, Martinique, France, for methodologic support.
We thank Olivier Verlaeten and Ludovic Jeanneau, who introduced the qPCR technique in the University Hospital of Fort de France
Dorothée Haug and the technical staff at the Service de Bactériologie of the University Hospital of Fort-de-France
Janick Jean-Marie and the staff at the Centre d’Investigation Clinique et d’Epidémiologie Clinique Antilles-Guyane (Institut National de la Santé et de la Re- cherche Médicale CIE 802)
Christopher Pappas for editorial assistance
and Eric Caumes for critical review of the manu- script.
MURGUET, SYLVIE
Institut Pasteur [Paris]
Source :
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015, 21 (12), pp.2221-2224. ⟨10.3201/eid2112.141099⟩, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015, 21 (12), pp.2221-2224. ⟨10.3201/eid2112.141099⟩, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 12, Pp 2221-2224 (2015)
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2015.

Abstract

International audience; To identify factors associated with disease severity, we examined 102 patients with quantitative PCR-confirmed leptospirosis in Martinique during 2010-2013. Associated factors were hypotension, chest auscultation abnormalities , icterus, oligo/anuria, thrombocytopenia, prothrombin time

Subjects

Subjects :
Male
Serotype
Epidemiology
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
lcsh:Medicine
Disease Outbreaks
MESH: Dogs
0302 clinical medicine
MESH: Martinique
Zoonoses
MESH: Animals
Dog Diseases
MESH: Disease Outbreaks
bacteria
0303 health sciences
MESH: Middle Aged
medicine.diagnostic_test
biology
Dispatch
Factors Associated with Severe Leptospirosis, Martinique, 2010–2013
MESH: Leptospirosis
Middle Aged
Leptospirosis
3. Good health
[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]
qPCR
Infectious Diseases
[SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology
severe leptospirosis
Female
medicine.symptom
MESH: Zoonoses
Martinique
Leptospira interrogans
Adult
Microbiology (medical)
MESH: Dog Diseases
030231 tropical medicine
leptospiremia
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
03 medical and health sciences
Dogs
Disease severity
medicine
Animals
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
[SDV.MP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology
Prothrombin time
MESH: Humans
030306 microbiology
business.industry
lcsh:R
MESH: Adult
Auscultation
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
serogroup Icterohaemorrhagiae
MESH: Male
Immunology
quantitative PCR
Anuria
business
MESH: Female

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10806040 and 10806059
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015, 21 (12), pp.2221-2224. ⟨10.3201/eid2112.141099⟩, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015, 21 (12), pp.2221-2224. ⟨10.3201/eid2112.141099⟩, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 12, Pp 2221-2224 (2015)
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....d953a0f9ad9223a43448f6537378956e

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