[Zoonoses in Vojvodina. II. Epidemiologic characteristics of leptospirosis in Vojvodina].
On the basis of reported cases of sickness--death due to leptospirosis and the epidemiologic investigation of 38 sick individuals, epidemiologic characteristics of anthropozoonosis in Vojvodina were analyzed. It has been established that this disease is registered in the form of individual cases, mostly in persons belonging to the productive population. Infection usually happens during the summer months and due to contact with contaminated water. High lethality and antibodies of leptospirosis icterohaemorrhagiae in 55.3% of samples of the serum of the sick point to the fact that only clinically severe forms of the disease were registered.
Seguljev
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Odeljenje za epidemiologiju, Pokrajinski zavod za zdravstvenu zastitu, Novi Sad.
Vuković
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B
Bacić
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M
Stefanović
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S
Petrović
M
M
Brcan
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N
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015022:Yugoslavia / Q000453:epidemiology
Zooantroponoze u Vojvodini. II. Epidemioloske karakteristike leptospiroza u Vojvodini.