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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Main Authors: Andre Pacheco Silva, Luciana Bonnassis Burg, João Felipe Schadeck Locatelli, Joice Manes, Morgana Crispim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2011-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867011702367