Leptospirosis: re-emerging or re-discovered disease?

Leptospirosis: a re-emerging infection.

Leptospirosis is a re-emerging zoonotic infection. In developing countries large outbreaks have occurred in urban slums and following floods. Individuals from developed nations are also now more frequently exposed to the infection as a result of international travel and greater participation in certain outdoor recreational activities. Leptospirosis remains a diagnostic challenge since it often ...

dengue: a re-emerging disease

results upon the results from literature search, the researchers found that human is the main reservoir for this virus. there are four serotypes of virus. infection with one serotype cannot protect human against the other three serotypes. dengue fever begins suddenly with an onset of an influenza-like syndrome and sometimes progresses to severe form of the disease. treatment is supportive and i...

Emerging or re-emerging bacterial zoonotic diseases: bartonellosis, leptospirosis, Lyme borreliosis, plague.

There are a whole series of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases present in the Northern Hemisphere and the author describes four of them, namely, bartonellosis, leptospirosis, Lyme borreliosis and plague. Reasons for the emergence or re-emergence of such diseases are not clear, but factors such as human demographics, economic development and land use, international travel and commerce, a...

emerging and re-emerging zoonoses

Re-emerging of infections in urban India--focus leptospirosis.

*Professor, Department of Medicine, BYL Nair Hospital and TN College, Mumbai. **Hon. Asst. Prof., Department of Medicine, Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai. One of the major success stores against infection diseases in the 20th Century is hampered by reemergence of old ones and with co-occurrence of new disease as well as drug resistance strains. Several bacterial diseas...