Travel-related leptospirosis in the Netherlands 2009-2016: An epidemiological report and case series

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Sophia G de VriesMarga G A Goris

Abstract

Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal zoonotic disease that is prevalent in travellers. Here, we describe epidemiological and diagnostic characteristics of all returning travellers diagnosed with leptospirosis in the Netherlands between 2009 and 2016. Furthermore, we present a detailed clinical case series of all travellers with leptospirosis who presented at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in the same period. We extracted data from the records of the Dutch Leptospirosis Reference Center (NRL) of all cases of leptospirosis in travellers in the Netherlands from 2009 to 2016. Patients who presented at the AMC were identified and clinical data were extracted from the hospital records. 224 cases of travel-related leptospirosis were included. An increase of cases was observed from 2014 onwards. The majority of cases were male (78.1%), and had travelled to South-East Asia (62.1%). Of 41 AMC cases, 53.7% were hospitalised, but most patients had a relatively mild disease course, with no fatalities. A longer delay in diagnosis and treatment initiation existed in hospitalised compared to non-hospitalised patients, suggesting a benefit of early recognition and treatment. Leptospirosis was increasingly observed in returning travellers in ...Continue Reading

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Nov 15, 2019·BMC Infectious Diseases·Ali MohammadiniaZeinab Ghaemi
Jun 18, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Andrei E SamoilovVladimir G Dedkov
Dec 18, 2020·Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease·Gaetan GentileFabrice Simon

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