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News articles tagged with 'Leptospira'

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Bacterial slime helps cause serious disease

— 5 May 2008 06:34 | Health

Leptospirosis is a serious but neglected emerging disease that infects humans through contaminated water. Now research published in the May issue of the journal Microbiology shows for…

Urban slum conditions are a source of leptospirosis

— 23 Apr 2008 15:41 | Health

A study conducted in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil has found that open sewers, accumulations of refuse, and inadequate floodwater drainage are acting as sources for transmission…

Scientists discover new species of disease-causing Leptospira

— 2 Apr 2008 05:49 | Health

An international team of researchers has isolated a new species of Leptospira, the bacterial spirochete that causes the disease leptospirosis, in the highly biodiverse Peruvian Amazon…

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