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Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Research Letter

Imported Leptospira licerasiae Infection in Traveler Returning to Japan from Brazil

Motoyuki Tsuboi, Nobuo Koizumi, Kayoko HayakawaComments to Author , Shuzo Kanagawa, Norio Ohmagari, and Yasuyuki Kato
Author affiliations: National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (M. Tsuboi, K. Hayakawa, S. Kanagawa, N. Ohmagari, Y. Kato); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo (N. Koizumi)

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Table

Case descriptions of patients infected with Leptospira licerasiae in South America*

Patient no. Age, y/sex Location Occupation Symptoms Therapy Prognosis Ref.
VAR10 31/F Varillal, Peru Food vendor 2-d history of fever, malaise, chills, headache, dizziness Antipyretics Resolved 5 d later (7)
HAI029 19/F Iquitos, Peru Student/ domestic worker 5-d history of fever, malaise, chills, headache, dizziness, leg pain and weakness, abdominal pain, anorexia, nausea, vomiting None Resolved† (7)
NIID18 40/M Corumbá, Brazil Camera crew 1-d history of fever, shaking chills, retroorbital pain, arthralgia and myalgia in elbow and knee joints, burning skin pain over the whole body, congested bulbar conjunctivae CTRX 2 g/d for 4 d, then DOX 100 mg 2×/d for 3 d Resolved within 3 d after initiation of CTRX This study

*CTRX, ceftriaxone; DOX, doxycycline; ref., reference.
†The day when the symptoms resolved was not described in the report.

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