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Source tracking of human leptospirosis: serotyping and genotyping of Leptospira isolated from rodents in the epidemic area of Guizhou province, China.
BMC microbiology - 1 Apr 2013
Li Shijun, Wang Dingming, Zhang Cuicai, Wei Xiaoyu, Tian Kecheng, Li Xiuwen, Nie Yixin, Liu Ying, Yao Guanghai, Zhou Jingzhu, Tang Guangpeng, Jiang Xiugao, Yan Jie
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sustained human leptospirosis as well as death cases has been reported in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Southeast of Guizhou, China, recently, but these human patients were only clinically diagnosed, and leptospires have never been isolated from patients in these epidemic regions, In order to track the source of infection and understand the etiologic characteristic of leptospirosis, we performed rodent...
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