Association between prevalence of human leptospirosis infection and gender in Hospital Melaka / Farah Aminah Hamka

• Main Author: Hamka, Farah Aminah
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: RC Internal Medicine; Infectious and parasitic diseases
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32377/1/32377.PDF; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32377/

Leptospirosis is one of the common re-emerging zoonotic diseases transmitted from infected animals to human. It is a bacterial infection caused by a species of pathogenic leptospiragenus called spirocheates. Pathogenic leptospires live in the kidneys of many mammalian hosts, including rodents, insec...