RT Book, Section
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.
SR Print(0)
ID 7025974
T1 Chapter 265. Leptospirosis
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7025974
RD 2024/04/20
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