Leptospirosis presenting as ascending progressive leg weakness and complicating with acute pancreatitis
Leptospirosis is a spirochetal bacterial infection of great public health importance. It has a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations which goes from subclinical infection and self-limited anicteric febrile illness (80–90% of all cases) to icteric leptospiropirosis known as Weil's disease. T...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2011-09-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867011702367 |