LEPTOSPIROSIS  

Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:  

7307.   AJ, Koury MC. Oliveira MA, Caballero OL, Vago AR, Harskeerl RA, Romanha AJ, Pena SD, Simpson  Low-stringency single specific primer PCR for identification of Leptospira. J Med Microbiol  2003 Feb;52(Pt 2):127-35.

Pathogenesis:

7308.   Levett PN. Usefulness of serologic analysis as a predictor of the infecting serovar in patients with severe leptospirosis. Clin Infect Dis  2003 Feb 15;36(4):447-52.

7309.   Luks AM, Lakshminarayanan S, Hirschmann JV. Leptospirosis presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: case report and literature review. Chest  2003 Feb;123(2):639-43.

7310.   Oliveira MA, Caballero OL, Vago AR, Harskeerl RA, Romanha AJ, Pena SD, Simpson AJ, Koury MC. Low-stringency single specific primer PCR for identification of Leptospira. J Med Microbiol  2003 Feb;52(Pt 2):127-35.

7311.   Ruof HR, Rudin C, Heininger U. Influenza-like symptoms and thrombocytopenia in a teenager. Pediatr Infect Dis J  2003 Jan;22(1):89, 101-2.

7312.   Tattevin P, Dupeux S, Hoff J. Leptospirosis and the antiphospholipid syndrome. Am J Med  2003 Feb 1;114(2):164. 

Therapy:

7313.   Pea L, Roda L, Boussaud V, Lonjon B. Desmopressin therapy for massive hemoptysis associated with severe leptospirosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med  2003 Mar 1;167(5):726-8

7314.   Watt G, Jongsakul K, Suttinont C. Possible scrub typhus coinfections in Thai agricultural  workers hospitalized with leptospirosis. Am J Trop Med Hyg  2003 Jan;68(1):89-91