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Guidelines: Leptospirosis

2010

• Recommended surveillance standards (Leptospirosis p.77) - Second edition; 1999
  

  This document has been produced jointly by technical clusters of WHO, as well as by UNAIDS, in order to bring together WHO recommended standards for the surveillance of communicable diseases. The purpose of this manual is to be a handy reference for key elements and contact information for all communicable diseases / syndromes associated with current WHO control programmes.

  French Version (Leptospirosis p.93)

• Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals; 2003
  

  This series provides a detailed overview of the most important historic and emerging zoonotic diseases, such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, foot-and-mouth disease, influenza, giardiasis, Japanese encephalitis, shigellosis, and spongiform encephalopathies, with information ranging from their first appearance and most important outbreaks to the latest scientific knowledge of the diseases and their causative agents.

• Human Leptospirosis: Guidance for Diagnosis, Surveillance and Control; 2003
  

  The target group to which these guidelines are directed consists of health workers (clinicians, laboratory technicians, microbiologists, public health workers, veterinarians and biologists with an interest in zoonoses, etc.) having no specialized knowledge of leptospirosis but who wish to be generally informed about the microorganism concerned and the disease that it may cause. This is not a handbook and avoids technical detail, but the interested reader can find further information in the Annexes and the general bibliography. 

Meeting Reports

2014

• Report of the 2013 Global Leptospirosis Environmental Action Network Meeting; 2013

2013

• Report of the National Forum and the International Meeting of Leptospirosis of Nicaragua; 2012

Selected References

2017

• Veterinary public health in natural and caused disasters (Only in Spanish)

2016

• Environmental and behavioural determinants of leptospirosis transmission: a systematic review
• Environmental exposure and leptospirosis, Peru
• Epidemic leptospirosis associated with pulmonary hemorrhage-Nicaragua, 1995
• Global burden of leptospirosis: estimated in terms of disability adjusted life years
• Global morbidity and mortality of leptospirosis: a systematic review
• Impact of environment and social gradient on Leptospira infection in urban slums
• Household transmission of Leptospira infection in urban slum communities
• Leptospirosis. 2005
• Leptospirosis in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: An Ecosystem Approach in the Animal-Human Interface
• Leptospirosis outbreaks in Nicaragua: Identifying critical areas and exploring drivers for evidence-based planning
• Leptospirosis: A Silent epidemic disease
• Leptospirosis
• Leptospirosis: case reports of an outbreak in Guyana
• Spatial distribution of leptospirosis in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: recovering the ecology of ecological studies (Only in Portuguese)
• Socioeconomic factors and vulnerability to outbreaks of leptospirosis in Nicaragua
• Urban epidemic of severe leptospirosis in Brazil
• Leptospirosis in Latin America: Exploring the first set of regional data

Technical reports: Leptospirosis

2010

• Report of the Second Meeting of the Leptospirosis Burden Epidemiology Reference Group; 2011
  

  The second meeting of the Leptospirosis Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (LERG) was held on 22–23 September 2010 in Geneva, to further the work to estimate the global burden of human leptospirosis.

• Report of the First Meeting of the Leptospirosis Burden Epidemiology Reference Group; 2010
  

  The Leptospirosis Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (LERG), convened as an advisory group to the Director-General of WHO, is tasked with quantifying and describing the leptospirosis burden in different populations, using summary measures of mortality and disability, such as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The first meeting of the LERG was held on 2–4 December 2009.

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