Early Indicators of Fatal Leptospirosis during the 2010 Epidemic in Puerto Rico.

• Egile Nagusiak: Tyler M Sharp (Egilea), Brenda Rivera García (Egilea), Janice Pérez-Padilla (Egilea), Renee L Galloway (Egilea), Marta Guerra (Egilea), Kyle R Ryff (Egilea), Dana Haberling (Egilea), Sharada Ramakrishnan (Egilea), Sean Shadomy (Egilea), Dianna Blau (Egilea), Kay M Tomashek (Egilea), William A Bower (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal bacterial zoonosis that is endemic throughout the tropics and may be misdiagnosed as dengue. Delayed hospital admission of leptospirosis patients is associated with increased mortality.During a concurrent dengue/leptospirosis epidemic in Puerto Rico in 2010, susp...