Severe leptospirosis after rat bite: A case report
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
.
2020 Jul 9;14(7):e0008257.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008257.
eCollection 2020 Jul.
Authors
Thais Faggion Vinholo
1
,
Guilherme S Ribeiro
2
3
,
Nanci F Silva
4
,
Jaqueline Cruz
2
,
Mitermayer G Reis
1
2
3
,
Albert I Ko
1
2
,
Federico Costa
1
2
5
6
Affiliations
1
Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Disease, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
2
Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Brazil.
3
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
4
Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Salvador, Brazil.
5
Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
6
Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
PMID:
32645040
PMCID:
PMC7347098
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pntd.0008257
No abstract available
Publication types
Case Reports
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
Adult
Animals
Bites and Stings / complications*
Female
Humans
Leptospirosis / transmission*
Rats
Zoonoses
Grants and funding
UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
F31 AI114245/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States
102330/Z/13/Z/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom
R01 TW009504/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States
MR/P024084/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
R25 TW009338/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States
MR/P0240841/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
R01 AI121207/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States