title: [Leptospirosis: an unusual etiology of anterior uveitis].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Leptospirosis is an anthropozoonosis, which affect 100000 people by year worldwide.
  
  
  METHODS
  Leptospirosis and IgA deficiency were revealed in a young man by acute anterior uveitis, after canyoning practice in the French West Indies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Uveitis should be added to the ocular phenotype of leptospirosis.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne, hôpital Bichat, 46, rue Henri-Huchard, 75722 Paris cedex 18, France.
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Michot
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lidove
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Boutboul
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aguilar
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Merle
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Olindo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cabre
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Papo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D014606:Uveitis, Anterior / Q000382:microbiology*