Leptospirosis with acute renal failure and paraparesis
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Acute renal failure due to leptospirosis.
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 th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Nephrology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0971-4065
DOI: 10.4103/0971-4065.43695