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Volume 10, Number 3—March 2004

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Reemerging Leptospirosis, California

Elissa Meites*, Michele T. Jay†, Stanley Deresinski†‡, Wun-Ju Shieh§, Sherif R. Zaki§, Lucy Tompkins*, and D. Scott Smith*¶Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; †California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California, USA; ‡Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California, USA; §Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ¶Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Redwood City, California, USA

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Table 1

Features of leptospirosis patients reported in California, 1982–2001

Exposure type % (n=61)
   Recreational
 59
   Occupational
 16
   Pet-related
 10
   Unknown
 15
Sex
   Male
 77
   Female
 15
   Unknown
 8
Race
   White
 70
   Hispanic
 8
   Black
 2
   Unknown
 20
Age
   0–20
 10
   21–40
 67
   41–60
 13
   60+
 2
   Unknown 8

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