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Case Reports
. 2015 Mar-Apr;22(2):136-9.
doi: 10.1111/jtm.12163. Epub 2014 Oct 15.

Leptospirosis after a stay in Madagascar

Frédéric Pagès  1 , Barbara Kuli, Marie-Pierre Moiton, Cyrille Goarant, Marie-Christine Jaffar-Bandjee
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Case Reports

Leptospirosis after a stay in Madagascar

Frédéric Pagès et al. J Travel Med. 2015 Mar-Apr.
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Abstract

We report a case of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-confirmed leptospirosis in a patient who recently traveled to Madagascar, a country where only two cases have been reported since 1955. Although laboratory and clinical presentations were atypical and despite leptospirosis not being a documented disease in Madagascar, blood and urine tests for leptospirosis enabled retrospective confirmation of the diagnosis.

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