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ArticlePolish journal of microbiology2020

Application of PCR for Specific Diagnosis of Leptospirosis in Humans in Ukraine.

Olena Zubach, Oksana Semenyshyn, Lilya Vasiuynets, Oksana Velychko, Alexander Zinchuk

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Article in Polish journal of microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Olena ZubachDanylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.
Oksana SemenyshynState Institution Lviv Oblast Laboratory Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.
Lilya VasiuynetsState Institution Lviv Oblast Laboratory Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.
Oksana VelychkoState Institution Lviv Oblast Laboratory Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.
Alexander ZinchukDanylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.

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Abstract

Leptospirosis remains one of the most widespread zoonotic diseases in the world and Ukraine, in particular. Ukrainian clinicians have been faced with early detection of the disease due to the availability of only a serological method for routine diagnostics in Ukraine, namely the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). This paper demonstrates the first results of the complex application of MAT and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for routine verification of leptospirosis, which were first applied simultaneously in Lviv Oblast of Ukraine in 2016. We examined the sera of 150 patients clinically suspected of leptospirosis, 31 of whom were treated at the Lviv Oblast Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases (LOCHID). The application of PCR during the first seven days of the disease allowed increasing the share of confirmed leptospirosis cases by 16,1% in patients that were treated in LOCHID during 2016-2017.

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Polymerase Chain ReactionAgglutination TestsHumansLeptospirosisRetrospective StudiesUkrainediagnosticsLeptospirosismicroagglutination testpolymerase chain reaction

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PMID33574870
PMCPMC7812358

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