Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 33-39, January 2010

Leptospirosis: An emerging disease in travellers

  • Colleen Lau

      Affiliations

    • School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Qld 4006, Australia
    • Travel Medicine Centre Perth, Ground Floor 5 Mill St, Perth, WA 6000, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: PO Box 12426, George St, Brisbane, Qld 4003, Australia. Tel.: +61 402134878; fax: +61 7 3365 5599.
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  • Lee Smythe

      Affiliations

    • WHO/FAO/OIE Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services, Coopers Plains, Qld 4108, Australia
    • ,
  • Philip Weinstein

      Affiliations

    • School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Qld 4006, Australia

Received 6 October 2009; received in revised form 8 December 2009; accepted 9 December 2009. published online 06 January 2010.

Summary 

A recent upsurge in leptospirosis in travellers has prompted the following review of the epidemiology of this infection in humans. The available data from the published literature as well as laboratory surveillance were examined to determine the possible causes of the apparent change in epidemiology.

Keywords: Leptospirosis, Emerging infection, Post-travel illness, Fever, Epidemiology, Zoonoses

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PII: S1477-8939(09)00180-X

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.12.002

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 33-39, January 2010

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