Towards the Burden of Human Leptospirosis: Duration of Acute Illness and Occurrence of Post-Leptospirosis Symptoms of Patients in The Netherlands

Marga G. A. Goris; Vanessa Kikken; Masja Straetemans; Sandra Alba; Marco Goeijenbier; Eric C. M. van Gorp; Kimberly R. Boer; Jiri F. P. Wagenaar; Rudy A. Hartskeerl

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076549

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Towards the Burden of Human Leptospirosis: Duration of Acute Illness and Occurrence of Post-Leptospirosis Symptoms of Patients in The Netherlands

Marga G. A. Goris ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Marga G. A. Goris, Vanessa Kikken

* E-mail: m.goris@kit.nl

Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Center and section Epidemiology, Royal Tropical Institute, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Vanessa Kikken ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Marga G. A. Goris, Vanessa Kikken

Affiliation Athena Institute, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Masja Straetemans,

Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Center and section Epidemiology, Royal Tropical Institute, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Sandra Alba,

Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Center and section Epidemiology, Royal Tropical Institute, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Marco Goeijenbier,

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Eric C. M. van Gorp,

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Kimberly R. Boer,

Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Center and section Epidemiology, Royal Tropical Institute, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Jiri F. P. Wagenaar,

Affiliations WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Center and section Epidemiology, Royal Tropical Institute, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Rudy A. Hartskeerl

Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Center and section Epidemiology, Royal Tropical Institute, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Towards the Burden of Human Leptospirosis: Duration of Acute Illness and Occurrence of Post-Leptospirosis Symptoms of Patients in The Netherlands

Marga G. A. Goris,
Vanessa Kikken,
Masja Straetemans,
Sandra Alba,
Marco Goeijenbier,
Eric C. M. van Gorp,
Kimberly R. Boer,
Jiri F. P. Wagenaar,
Rudy A. Hartskeerl

Published: October 3, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076549

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