Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease

Anicteric leptospirosis is a self-limited flu-like disease, whereas the icteric form is a severe illness characterized by multiple organ involvement or even failure. A case involving a patient with rapidly progressing renal insufficiency requiring intermittent renal replacement therapy due to Leptos...

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Main Authors: Tanja Schmidhauser, Simona Curioni, Enos Bernasconi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/659718