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01-12-2019 | Leptospirosis | Editorial

Leptospirosis: one of the forgotten diseases

Authors: Leandro U. Taniguchi, Pedro Póvoa

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2019

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“On a strange, acute infectious disease, accompanied by swelling of the spleen, icterus, and nephritis” Adolf Weil (1886)

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Title: Leptospirosis: one of the forgotten diseases
Authors: Leandro U. Taniguchi
Pedro Póvoa
Publication date: 01-12-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Leptospirosis
Leptospira
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05839-z

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