Title
Demographic, exposure, clinical, biochemical and diagnostic data of febrile patients recruited for the largest field study on leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
Date Issued
01 August 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
data paper
Author(s)
Agampodi S.
Warnasekara J.
Siribaddana S.
Kularatna S.A.M.
Gamage C.
Jayasundara D.
Senevirathna I.
Srimantha S.
Kappagoda C.
Weerawansa P.
Pilapitiya S.
Lokunarangoda N.
Sarathchandra C.
Senanayake H.
Matthias M.
Yale University
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
This dataset includes data from febrile patients recruited for a large hospital-based study in Sri Lanka from 2016 to 2019. The variables include primary socio-demographic data, exposure data, clinical data, biochemical and investigation data. Some of these data are available as serial data from admission to discharge daily. Microscopic agglutination test, quantitative PCR of whole blood, urine and serum and culture isolation was performed to diagnose the patients with leptospirosis.
Volume
43
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología celular, Microbiología
Medicina tropical
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132581506
Source
Data in Brief
ISSN of the container
2352-3409
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the NIAID, National Institutes of Health [grant number U19AI115658].
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus