Acute renal failure due to leptospirosis.

نویسندگان

  • M A Muthusethupathi
  • S Shivakumar
چکیده

A study was carried out on 16 cases of leptospirosis with acute renal failure (ARF) detected in adult patients admitted into the Medical and Nephrology wards of the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, over a four-year period from 1980 to 1983. Most of the cases were male, Malays and older adults. The predominant infecting serovars were L. celledoni (of the serogroup L. javanica and L. pomona (of the L. pomona serogroup]. All the cases survived, including those who required peritoneal dialysis.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India

دوره 35 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1987