DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF LEPTOSPIROSIS IN HUMANS AND DOGS

  • Simona Ivana Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest Institute of Comparative Medicine, Bucharest,Acad. „David Davidescu” Centre of Agrosilvical Biodiversity, 13, 13 Sept. Street, Bucharest
  • A. T Bogdan Acad. „David Davidescu” Centre of Agrosilvical Biodiversity
  • Nicoleta Andreescu INCDMI Cantacuzino, Bucharest
  • Dana Magdalena Caplan INCDMI Cantacuzino, Bucharest
  • C. Savu Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 105, Splaiul Independentei Street, Bucharest
  • Alexandrina Alecu . Pasteur Institute S.A., 333 Calea Giulesti, sector 6, Bucharest
  • Iudith Ipate Acad. „David Davidescu” Centre of Agrosilvical Biodiversity
  • Dana Pusta Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca
  • A. N Popescu6 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 105, Splaiul Independentei Street, Bucharest
  • B. Georgescu Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 105, Splaiul Independentei Street, Bucharest
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15835/buasvmcn-vm:65:1:423
Keywords: leptospirosis, Leptospira interrogans, animals and humans

Abstract

Leptospirosis is an acute antropozoonosis characterized by fever, shivers, myalgia, meningeal, hepatic and renal disturbances, the disease has an universal dissemination with an sporadic endemic course on which limited epidemies graft, especially during summer and autumn and in rural environment. The disease has also a professional character, occurring especially in those who work with animals or in marshy environments. The males are more frequently affected by it. As for the situation of human leptospirosis in Romania, several particular aspects must be taken into account: the atypical and the subclinical types remain non-diagnosed, because they are not noticed by the patients or are considered to be intercurrent diseases, but they can develop serious latent infections; due to the lack of systematic deratizations, at the level of the entire country, an increase of the number of sporadic cases is registered and consequently also an increase of the number of those with a fatal course.
Published
2008-11-21
Issue
Vol. 65 No. 1 (2008)
Section
Research Articles
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