Title
Leptospirosis on Oahu: An outbreak among military personnel associated with recreational exposure
Date Issued
01 January 1997
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Destacamento Naval de Investigación Médica
Abstract
In December 1992, a common-source waterborne outbreak of leptospirosis occurred on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. Two male service persons were hospitalized with culture-confirmed leptospirosis. Eighteen others had similar histories of exposure to the same freshwater swimming site. Although six men developed signs and symptoms comparable to those of the two confirmed cases, none manifested culture or serologic evidence of leptospirosis. The increased incidence of leptospirosis in Hawaii coupled with an increased risk in young males characterize the military population in Hawaii as a high-risk population with respect to leptospirosis.
Start page
101
End page
104
Volume
162
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0031024344
PubMed ID
Source
Military Medicine
ISSN of the container
00264075
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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