Multi-organ failure, weeks after being exposed to murky water - rule out leptospirosis

• Hoofdauteurs: Jaskeerat Singh (Auteur), Gurkeerat Singh (Auteur), Fawad Khaliq (Auteur), Robert Ferguson (Auteur), Charles Haile (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Leptospirosis is a rare zoonotic disease which occurs in people exposed to contaminated water or/and animal urine. We report two cases of moderate to severe leptospirosis. The first case was a healthy middle-aged biology professor who recently visited his family in Jamaica and presented with multi-o...