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Disasters
; 5(1): 46-8, 1981 Mar.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20958480
ABSTRACT
Abstract- A brief report was presented on a new outbreak of leptospirosis among the population of Greater Recife in 1975 in the wake of the floods that struck the city and its survivors in July of that year. A total of 107 cases were recorded, of which 105 were identified by sero-agglutination and 2 by hemoculture. Once again the serotype icterohaemorrhagiae was the predominant etiological agent, having been found in 55 cases, followed by ballum in 18, grippotyphosa in 9, and pyrogenes in 8 cases.