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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
M S Arcilla<SUP>1</SUP>, P J Wismans<SUP>1</SUP>, Y van Beek-Nieuwland<SUP>1</SUP>, P J van Genderen (
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Citation style for this article: Arcilla MS, Wismans PJ, van Beek-Nieuwland Y, van Genderen PJ. Severe leptospirosis in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, October 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(13)
ii=20134. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20134
Date of submission: 19 March 2012 <HR>In October 2011, a case of leptospirosis was identified in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic to the Netherlands. The 51-year-old man had aspired muddy water in the Chav?n river on 29 September. Twenty days later he presented with fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, arthralgia, headache, conjunctival suffusion and icterus. Leptospira serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae or Australis infection was confirmed ten days later by laboratory testing.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 13, 29 March 2012
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Severe leptospirosis in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, October 2011
Rapid communications
Severe leptospirosis in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, October 2011
M S Arcilla<SUP>1</SUP>, P J Wismans<SUP>1</SUP>, Y van Beek-Nieuwland<SUP>1</SUP>, P J van Genderen (
- Institute for Tropical Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Havenziekenhuis, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Citation style for this article: Arcilla MS, Wismans PJ, van Beek-Nieuwland Y, van Genderen PJ. Severe leptospirosis in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, October 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(13)
ii=20134. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20134 Date of submission: 19 March 2012 <HR>In October 2011, a case of leptospirosis was identified in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic to the Netherlands. The 51-year-old man had aspired muddy water in the Chav?n river on 29 September. Twenty days later he presented with fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, arthralgia, headache, conjunctival suffusion and icterus. Leptospira serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae or Australis infection was confirmed ten days later by laboratory testing.