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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Public Health
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Animal Bite
 Leptospirosis
 Public Health
 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
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2014-06-01
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7
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3
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In October 2013, leptospirosis was identified in a 20-year-old male. The male was bitten on his hand by either his canine or a skunk while breaking up a fight between the two animals. Eight days after the bite, the male developed fever, headache, drowsiness, neck pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, malaise and erythematous rash. Diagnosis was confirmed by amplification of Leptospira by DNA from a urine specimen. Veterinarian serology testing of the canine for Leptospira was negative. Leptospira in a human, acquired from an animal bite is a rare occurrence.
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Bedard BA, Kennedy BS, Weimer AC, Petruso A, Magnussen R. Leptospirosis and an animal bite. Ann Trop Med Public Health 2014;7:182-4.
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