TY - JOUR AU - Herrmann-Storck, Cécile AU - Saint Louis, Magalie AU - Foucand, Tania AU - Lamaury, Isabelle AU - Deloumeaux, Jacqueline AU - Baranton, Guy AU - Simonetti, Maurice AU - Sertour, Natacha AU - Nicolas, Muriel AU - Salin, Jacques AU - Cornet, Muriel T1 - Severe Leptospirosis in Hospitalized Patients, Guadeloupe T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 2 SP - 331 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We evaluated prognostic factors for leptospirosis in 168 consecutive hospitalized patients in Guadeloupe. Factors independently associated with severity included chronic hypertension or chronic alcoholism, late initiation of antibacterial therapy, abnormal chest auscultation results, icterus, oligoanuria, disorders of consciousness, elevated aspartate aminotransferase levels, hyperamylasemia, and Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohemorrhagiae. KW - Leptospirosis KW - prognostic factors KW - serovar KW - virulence KW - reservoir hosts KW - Guadeloupe KW - bacteria KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1602.090139 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/2/09-0139_article ER - End of Reference