Scientists have taken a new, wide-ranging look at leptospirosis, a zoonotic disease that can cause symptoms ranging from mild headaches to severe bleeding. They sequenced the genomes of different ...

Leptospirosis is an emerging zoonotic disease that affects more than one million people around the world each year. Researchers have now sequenced the genomes of Leptospira collected from environments ...

A 14-year-old boy with severe combined immunodeficiency presented three times to a medical facility over a period of 4 months with fever and headache that progressed to hydrocephalus and status ...

Leptospirosis is caused by an infection from rat urine and is commonly associated with flooding. With flooding events becoming more common due to climate change, the occurrence of leptospirosis is ...

The first comprehensive, cross-species genomic comparison of all 20 known species of <em>Leptospira</em>, a bacterial genus that can cause disease and death in ...

Spirochetes are a type of free-living, spiral-shaped bacteria, some of which are harmless and others that can cause disease in people. Leptospires are an infectious kind of spirochete that cause ...

Leptospira spp. belong to the bacterial phylum Spirochaetes, which contains evolutionary and structurally unique bacteria. The genus Leptospira is composed of saprophytic and pathogenic bacterial ...

Health officials are warning of a deadly bacteria lurking in Hawaii's flood waters. The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) and Hawaiian Humane Society (HHS) have urged residents and recovery workers to ...

Leptospirosis is a globally distributed infectious disease that affects both animals and humans. While the infection is endemic in tropical regions, its incidence seems to increase in temperate ...