Leptospirosis Diagnosis: Competancy of Various Laboratory Tests

Leptospirosis diagnosis: competancy of various laboratory tests.

Leptospira can be found in virtually all tropical and temperate areas of the world and is presumed to be the most wide spread zoonoses in the world.Humans contact leptospirosis through mucosal or percutaneous exposure to leptospires in environments contaminated by the urine of chronically infected animal sources. Despite being common, the diagnosis of leptospirosis is often not made unless a pa...

Comparison of Two ELISA Methods for the Laboratory Diagnosis of Acute Leptospirosis

Background: Leptospirosis is the most common zoonosis widespread in tropical and temperate countries with low social-economic status. We aimed to compare an ELISA kit with an in-house ELISA assay to test the serum samples of the patients who were suspicious of leptospirosis according to their clinical symptoms. Methods: A total of 282 serum samples of patients suspicious of leptospirosis admitt...

Leptospirosis: possibilities of early laboratory and clinical diagnosis

This retrospective study aims to identify and describe the problems associated with the laboratory and clinical diagnosis of leptospirosis. A total of 4,813 patients with suspected leptospirosis from an area of the Czech Republic, with a total population of 1.15 million, were examined during the period 2002-2010. Our study included only 855 patients: 545 men (mean age 41.03 ± 19.24) and 310 wom...

Leptospirosis in West Malaysia--epidemiology and laboratory diagnosis.

The use of ancillary laboratory tests in leptospirosis, with particular reference to the diagnosis of the mild case.

The incidence of leptospirosis in British troops serving in Malaya has afforded a good opportunity for the comparative evaluation of the clinical and laboratory examinations of a large number of mild cases of the disease, and the use of these tests in diagnosis and in the differentiation of leptospirosis from other causes of fever (Robinson and Kennedy, 1956; McCrumb, Stockland, Robinson, Turne...