TY - JOUR AU - LaRocque, Regina AU - Breiman, Robert AU - Ari, Mary AU - Morey, Roger AU - Janan, Firdous Ara AU - Hayes, John Mosely AU - Hossain, M. Anowar AU - Brooks, W. Abdullah AU - Levett, Paul T1 - Leptospirosis during Dengue Outbreak, Bangladesh T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 5 SP - 766 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We collected acute-phase serum samples from febrile patients at 2 major hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during an outbreak of dengue fever in 2001. A total of 18% of dengue-negative patients tested positive for leptospirosis. The case-fatality rate among leptospirosis patients (5%) was higher than among dengue fever patients (1.2%). KW - Keywords: Leptospirosis KW - Dengue KW - Bangladesh KW - fever DO - 10.3201/eid1105.041212 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/5/04-1212_article ER - End of Reference