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Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's syndrome, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, Rat Catcher's Yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, and Pretibial fever is caused by infection with bacteria of the genus Leptospira and affects humans as well as other animals.

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  • Leptospirosis
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  • Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's syndrome, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, Rat Catcher's Yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, and Pretibial fever is caused by infection with bacteria of the genus Leptospira and affects humans as well as other animals.
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mortalityrate
  • Very low
symptom
  • High fever, severe headache, chills, muscle aches, and vomiting,
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Name
  • Leptospirosis
Type
  • Bacterial
treatment
  • Aetiotropic antibiotics
Cause
  • In most cases, exposure to urine of an infected animal
abstract
  • Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's syndrome, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, Rat Catcher's Yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, and Pretibial fever is caused by infection with bacteria of the genus Leptospira and affects humans as well as other animals. Leptospirosis is among the world's most common diseases transmitted to people from animals. The infection is commonly transmitted to humans by allowing water that has been contaminated by animal urine to come in contact with unhealed breaks in the skin, the eyes, or the mucous membranes. Because urine has a natural disinfecting effect and leptospirosis is one of the very few bacteria that can survive in such an environment, it is one of very few urine transmitted diseases. It also only persists outside a host in a warm, wet environment. As such, outside of tropical areas, leptospirosis cases have a relatively distinct seasonality with most cases occurring in spring and autumn where conditions are most favorable.
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