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Outbreak of leptospirosis during a scout camp in the Luxembourg Belgian province, Belgium, summer 2012.
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- Invasive Alien Species of European Union Concern: A Systematic Review of High-Priority Pathogens in 22 Species in a One Health Framework.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Leptospirosis in the Caribbean Region between 2000 and 2022: A scoping review of morbidity and mortality.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Design and set-up of the leptospirosis registryFrontiers in public health · 2025Article
- One Health and sex and gender-related perspective in the ecosystem: Interactions among drivers involved in the risk of leptospirosis in Europe. A scoping review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Risk factors forEpidemiology and infection · 2022Article
- Laboratory Diagnosis of Bovine Abortions Caused by Non-Maintenance PathogenicPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Muskrats are greater carriers of pathogenic Leptospira than coypus in ecosystems with temperate climates.PloS one · 2020Article
- An outbreak of leptospirosis among kayakers in Brittany, North-West France, 2016.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2018Article
- Pathology and pathogenesis of human leptospirosis: a commented review.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2018Review
- Pet rodents as possible risk for leptospirosis, Belgium and France, 2009 to 2016.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2017Article
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Abstract
An outbreak of leptospirosis occurred in the South of Belgium, during August 2012, in teenagers who participated in two consecutive adventure scout camps near the Semois river. Among the symptomatic patient population (ten scouts), clinical manifestations included headache (70%), myalgia (50%), fever (50%), bilateral conjunctival injection (50%), general malaise (30%), vomiting (20%), anorexia (20%) and cough (20%). Some of the cases presented elevated blood creatinine (40%), or proteinuria (30%). Three patients were confirmed by serology and one by polymerase chain reaction. Potential risk factors included direct contact with a muskrat and indirect contact with potentially contaminated environments including the river water. Prospective environmental investigation carried out near the river banks 2 weeks after the outbreak identified Ondatra zibethicus (muskrat) as one Leptospira sp. reservoir.
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