TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 265. Leptospirosis
A1  - Gershon, Anne A.
A1  - Katz, Michael
A2  - Rudolph, Colin D.
A2  - Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2  - Lister, George E.
A2  - First, Lewis R.
A2  - Gershon, Anne A.
PY  - 2011
T2  - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
AB  - Leptospirosis  is  a  multisystem  febrile  disease;  its  underlying  pathogenesis  is  a  vasculitis.  All  leptospires  belong  to  one  species  of  spirochete,  Leptospira  interrogans.  It  causes  a  variety  of  clinical  syndromes  including  Weil  disease  (occasionally  used  to  refer  to  the  most  severe  form  of  leptospirosis),  swamp  fever,  and  field  fever  in  Europe;  7-day  fever  (nanukayami)  and  autumnal  fever  (Hasami-Netsu)  in  Japan;  canefield  fever  in  Australia;  and  Bushy  Creek  fever  and  Fort  Bragg  fever  in  the  United  States;  all  described  before  discovery  of  the  causative  agent.  There  is  ample  epidemiologic  evidence  that  swine,  cattle,  dogs,  and  rodents  serve  as  reservoirs.1  
SN  - 
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CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7025974
ER  -