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Renal function after leptospirosis.
It is generally assumed that a patient who survives an attack of leptospirosis is left with normal kidneys (Van Thiel, 1948; Gsell, 1952; Ross Russell, 1959), but no long-term follow-up study has been published and certain facts suggest the need for such an investigation. Firstly, the frequency of renal damage in this disease is illustrated by the reports of Penna et al. (1963) and de Brito et ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.3.5563.472