Examples of leptospirosis in the following topics:
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- Leptospirosis is a rare and severe infection caused by Leptospira bacteria and usually transmitted to people from animals.
- Leptospirosis is among the world's most common diseases transmitted to people from animals.
- Leptospirosis is caused by a spirochaete bacterium called Leptospira spp.
- Leptospirosis is transmitted by the urine of an infected animal and is contagious as long as it is still moist.
- Leptospirosis is also transmitted by the semen of infected animals.
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- Leptospira, the cause of leptospirosis - leptospirosis is transmitted to humans from animals and a common form of transmission is by allowing contaminated water to come in contact with unhealed breaks in the skin, eyes and mucous membranes.
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- It may also indicate leptospirosis or obstruction of the biliary tract by gallstones or pancreatic cancer; it may less commonly be congenital in origin.
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- It may also indicate leptospirosis or obstruction of the biliary tract, for example by gallstones or pancreatic cancer.