Wednesday, January 6, 2010

leptospira interrogans

Weil's disease( infectious jaundice)

- ranging from a mild self limiting febrile illness to a fulmnating fatal illness associated with hepatorenal failure

- ip is 7 -14 days

- a biphasic illness with quiescent period in between

1. Initial septicaemic phase---------jaundice

2. Second phase ---------meningitis

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