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Leptospirosis
Websites
Includes risk for travelers, cause, prevention, and treatment.
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/lepto.htm
Factsheet with cause, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/leptospirosis_g.htm
Article by Judith Green-McKenzie, MD, MPH.
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic856.htm
Article by Matthew R Jezior, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1283.htm
Article by Patrick W Hickey, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1298.htm
Includes cause, symptoms, diagnosis, and prevention.
http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections...noses/leptospirosis/gen_info.htm
Features cause, symtptoms, treatment, and prevention.
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Lepto.html
Includes cause, people at risk, symptoms, and complications.
http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/z...noses/Leptospira/leptohuman.html
Features cause, symptoms, treatment, diagnosis, prevention, risk factors, and complications.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001376.htm
Short factsheet on the disease.
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/m...ual_home2/sec17/ch190/ch190j.jsp
Factsheet with cause, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention efforts.
http://www.who.int/water_sanitat...ealth/diseases/leptospirosis/en/
Scientific and medical information about the spirochete and the diseases it causes.
http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch035.htm
Advice for the caving and medical community on leptospira including symptoms and treatment.
http://www.leptospirosis.org/
Doctor produced consumer health information on leptospirosis, including symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
http://www.medicinenet.com/leptospirosis/article.htm