Abstract
Emerging leptospirosis, North India.
Highlights
To the Editor: We read with interest the article, The Changing Epidemiology of Leptospirosis in Israel, published in volume 7, no. 6 (1)
To assess the current status of transmission in Delhi and its adjoining areas, we conducted a systematic study for the diagnosis of leptospirosis in our hospital from April 2000 to March 2001; case definition criteria suggested in a previous study (4) were used
In addition to clinical evaluation and assessment for other diseases, leptospirosis was investigated by the following laboratory methods: isolation of Leptospira interrogans, direct visualization of the organism under dark-field microscopy, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for Leptospira immunoglobulin (Ig) M antibody (Serion Immunodiagnostica GmbH, Würzburg, Germany)
Summary
To the Editor: We read with interest the article, The Changing Epidemiology of Leptospirosis in Israel, published in volume 7, no. 6 (1). To assess the current status of transmission in Delhi and its adjoining areas, we conducted a systematic study for the diagnosis of leptospirosis in our hospital from April 2000 to March 2001; case definition criteria suggested in a previous study (4) were used. In addition to clinical evaluation and assessment for other diseases, leptospirosis was investigated by the following laboratory methods: isolation of Leptospira interrogans, direct visualization of the organism under dark-field microscopy, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for Leptospira immunoglobulin (Ig) M antibody (Serion Immunodiagnostica GmbH, Würzburg, Germany).
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