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Laboratory Diagnosis of Leptospirosis. 2020

Nobuo Koizumi
Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan. nkoizumi@niid.go.jp.

The diagnosis of leptospirosis depends on specific laboratory tests because nonspecific and diverse clinical manifestations make clinical diagnosis difficult and it is easily confused with other infectious diseases in the tropics. Suitable laboratory diagnostic tests vary depending on the stage of the disease, requiring the combination of diagnostic tests using appropriate specimens at each disease stage.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007919 Leptospira A genus of aerobic, helical spirochetes, some species of which are pathogenic, others free-living or saprophytic.
D007922 Leptospirosis Infections with bacteria of the genus LEPTOSPIRA. Cane-Cutter Fever,Canicola Fever,Leptospira Canicola Infection,Leptospira Infection,Leptospirosis Canicola,Mud Fever,Rice-Field Fever,Stuttgart Disease,Swineherd's Disease,Cane Cutter Fever,Fever, Canicola,Fever, Mud,Fever, Rice-Field,Fevers, Cane-Cutter,Infection, Leptospira,Infection, Leptospira Canicola,Infections, Leptospira,Infections, Leptospira Canicola,Leptospira Canicola Infections,Leptospira Infections,Leptospiroses,Leptospirosis Canicolas,Rice Field Fever,Swineherd's Diseases
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012680 Sensitivity and Specificity Binary classification measures to assess test results. Sensitivity or recall rate is the proportion of true positives. Specificity is the probability of correctly determining the absence of a condition. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed) Specificity,Sensitivity,Specificity and Sensitivity
D019411 Clinical Laboratory Techniques Techniques used to carry out clinical investigative procedures in the diagnosis and therapy of disease. Clinical Laboratory Test,Clinical Laboratory Testing,Clinical Laboratory Diagnoses,Clinical Laboratory Testings,Clinical Laboratory Tests,Diagnoses and Laboratory Examinations,Diagnosis, Laboratory,Laboratory Diagnosis,Laboratory Examinations and Diagnoses,Laboratory Techniques, Clinical,Clinical Laboratory Technique,Diagnose, Clinical Laboratory,Laboratory Diagnoses,Laboratory Technique, Clinical,Laboratory Test, Clinical,Laboratory Testing, Clinical,Technique, Clinical Laboratory,Test, Clinical Laboratory,Testing, Clinical Laboratory

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