Clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of people seen at health institutions with leptospirosis Infections and Infestations
Conditions
Interventions
Data capture for all participants was from at least the first health services contact until the end of hospital contact or last study contact. Summary statistics were performed as well as risk analysi
Sponsors
Nagasaki University
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
1 Years to 87 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Clinical or microbiological diagnosis of leptospirosis from a search of hospital records
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: For SLH2 dataset, the following exclusions were applied: 1. Hospitalization last 30 days 2. Fever onset > 48 hours post-hospitalization 3. Blood culture draw = 48 hours after admission 4. Positive microbiological diagnosis of dengue at admission 5. Diagnosis of other viral infection and WBC = 12,000/mm3 or = 4,000 mm3 6. Known underlying chronic disease/condition 7. < 1 year old 8. Declined consent to participate For BMH1 the following exclusions were applied: 1. Clinical diagnosis of malaria, dengue, food-borne gastroenteritis, cellulitis, or rat-bite fever at admission 2. Microbiological diagnosis at source referral 3. Suspected of having hepatitis-related disease
Countries
Malaysia, Philippines, Viet Nam
Contacts
Public ContactNathaniel Lee
Outcome results
None listed