Optimization of Culture of Leptospira from Humans with Leptospirosis
- 1 April 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 45 (4) , 1363-1365
Abstract
A prospective study of 989 patients with acute febrile illness was performed in northeast Thailand to define the yield of Leptospira from four different types of blood sample. Based on a comparison of the yields from whole blood, surface plasma, deposit from spun plasma, and clotted blood samples from 80 patients with culture-proven leptospirosis, we suggest a sampling strategy in which culture is performed using whole blood and deposit from spun plasma.Keywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Causes of acute, undifferentiated, febrile illness in rural Thailand: results of a prospective observational studyPathogens and Global Health, 2006
- Viability of Leptospira in BacT/ALERT® MB MediaDiagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2006
- Survey of leptospirosis of small mammals in Thailand.2005
- Usefulness of Serologic Analysis as a Predictor of the Infecting Serovar in Patients with Severe LeptospirosisClinical Infectious Diseases, 2003
- LeptospirosisClinical Microbiology Reviews, 2001
- Survival of leptospires in commercial blood culture systems revisitedJournal of Clinical Pathology, 2000
- International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Leptospira: Minutes of the Meeting, 6 to 10 August 1982, Boston, MassachusettsInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 1984
- NUTRITION OF LEPTOSPIRA POMONA AND GROWTH OF 13 OTHER SEROTYPES - FRACTIONATION OF OLEIC ALBUMIN COMPLEX AND A MEDIUM OF BOVINE ALBUMIN AND POLYSORBATE 801965
- Leptospirosis in MalayaThe American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1957