title: [Leptospirosis in children: a not infrequent disease (author's transl)].
abstract: A total of 14 cases of leptospirosis in children aged from 5 to 15 years, hospitalized in the Paris region, are reported. The polymorphe character of the disease is pointed out. The necessity for respecting a rigorous chronological order when requesting complementary examinations, which could confirm the diagnosis, is stressed. Domestic animals, team-mates, and while swimming at week-ends or during holidays, are potential sources or means of infection in the young. This justifies searching for leptospirosis in cases of unexplained fever, a pseudo-influenza syndrome, a meningitis which is mainly of the lymphocytic type, or more rarely, in cases of jaundice. Leptospirosis should be a disease well-known by the pediatrician.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007565:Jaundice / Q000209:etiology; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D007921:Leptospira interrogans / Q000276:immunology; D041341:Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola / Q000276:immunology; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000209:etiology; D014895:Weil Disease / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial
vernacular_title: La leptospirose de l'enfant, maladie non exceptionnelle.