Leptospirosis presenting as a haemorrhagic fever in a traveller from Africa
Heron, L.G.; Reiss-Levy, E.A.; Jacques, T.C.; Dickeson, D.J.; Smythe, L.D.; Sorrell, T.C.
Medical Journal of Australia 167(9): 477-479
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-729X PMID: 9397062 Document Number: 476259
Leptospirosis is usually a mild illness, although the severity of clinical manifestations may vary between the serovars of leptospires. In May 1993, a 48-year-old man from Ghana presented with severe icteric leptospirosis, initially managed as viral haemorrhagic fever. The causative serovar, bataviae, had not been previously diagnosed in human infection in Australia.