Abstract
Leptospirosis in humans occurs globally(141) as an acute infection ranging in severity from unnoticed and subclinical to fatal. It is a zoonosis (strictly, an anthropozoonosis) acquired by humans from an animal source. The causal bacterium is a pathogenic spirochete of the genus Leptospira, of which there are several species and more than 250 serological varieties (serovars), each of which has some diagnostic, prognostic, or epidemiological significance.(50,70) © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009.
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Levett, P. N., & Edwards, C. N. (2009). Leptospirosis. In Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control (pp. 439–460). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09843-2_21
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