[Leptospirosis: report of a fulminant fatal case and review].
In relation to the explosive increase of new and reemerging infectious diseases that threaten the humanity, and as a result of this clinical case, a literature review is done on Leptospirosis stressing out the necessity of having in mind the leptospirosis in the differential diagnostic for fever and jaundice syndrome.
Abuauad
M Cecilia
MC
Servicio de Gastroenterología, Hospital Barros Luco Trudeau, Santiago, Chile. jorilola@msn.com
Osorio
Guido
G
Rojas
Juan L
JL
Pino
Lorena
L
D000293:Adolescent; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007919:Leptospira / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008297:Male; D014895:Weil Disease / Q000473:pathology*