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- Title
Determining risk for severe leptospirosis by molecular analysis of environmental surface waters for pathogenic Leptospira.
- Authors
Ganoza, Christian A; Matthias, Michael A; Collins-Richards, Devon; Brouwer, Kimberly C; Cunningham, Calaveras B; Segura, Eddy R; Gilman, Robert H; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; Vinetz, Joseph M
- Abstract
Although previous data indicate that the overall incidence of human leptospirosis in the Peruvian Amazon is similar in urban and rural sites, severe leptospirosis has been observed only in the urban context. As a potential explanation for this epidemiological observation, we tested the hypothesis that concentrations of more virulent Leptospira would be higher in urban than in rural environmental surface waters.
- Publication
PLoS medicine, 2006, Vol 3, Issue 8, pe308
- ISSN
1549-1676
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.0030308