Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease
Anicteric leptospirosis is a self-limited flu-like disease, whereas the icteric form is a severe illness characterized by multiple organ involvement or even failure. A case involving a patient with rapidly progressing renal insufficiency requiring intermittent renal replacement therapy due to Leptos...
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| description | Anicteric leptospirosis is a self-limited flu-like disease, whereas the icteric form is a severe illness characterized by multiple organ involvement or even failure. A case involving a patient with rapidly progressing renal insufficiency requiring intermittent renal replacement therapy due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the absence of a Weil’s disease is reported. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e88c400a809541ac8c68134eab0eb4bb2025-02-03T01:21:28ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology1712-95322013-01-01241e26e2810.1155/2013/659718Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s DiseaseTanja Schmidhauser0Simona Curioni1Enos Bernasconi2Department of Internal Medicine, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Sede Civico, Lugano, SwitzerlandDepartment of Nephrology, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Sede Civico, Lugano, SwitzerlandDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Sede Civico, Lugano, SwitzerlandAnicteric leptospirosis is a self-limited flu-like disease, whereas the icteric form is a severe illness characterized by multiple organ involvement or even failure. A case involving a patient with rapidly progressing renal insufficiency requiring intermittent renal replacement therapy due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the absence of a Weil’s disease is reported.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/659718 |
| spellingShingle | Tanja Schmidhauser Simona Curioni Enos Bernasconi Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology |
| title | Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease |
| title_full | Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease |
| title_fullStr | Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease |
| title_short | Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease |
| title_sort | acute interstitial nephritis due to leptospira grippotyphosa in the absence of weil s disease |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/659718 |
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