Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of leptospirosis incidence in Colombia

• Main Authors: Juan David Gutiérrez (Author), Ruth Aralí Martínez-Vega (Author), Hector Botello (Author), Freddy Jesús Ruiz-Herrera (Author), Laura Carolina Arenas-López (Author), Karen Dayana Hernandez-Tellez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Human leptospirosis is an infection that most often affects tropical countries. Since 2007, Colombia requires the notification of disease cases, enabling the observation of an increase in cases in recent years. The objectives of this article were to analyze environmental and socioeconomic variables...