Leptospiral pneumonia.
Leptospirosis is an uncommon zoonosis. As a systemic infectious disease, leptospirosis usually is characterized by multisystem involvement. Pulmonary involvement with leptospirosis often is manifested by respiratory symptoms, but pneumonia commonly is not a prominent clinical manifestation of the illness. We report a case of fulminant leptospiral pneumonia in which pulmonary manifestations were primary clinical features of the illness.
Teglia
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Epidemiology and Radiology Department, Sanatorio Parque, Rosario, Argentina.
Battagliotti
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Villavicencio
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Cunha
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BA
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D041341:Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*