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Demographic, exposure, clinical, biochemical and diagnostic data of febrile patients recruited for the largest field study on leptospirosis in Sri Lanka

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Volume 43, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108378

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Leptospira; Leptospirosis; Microscopic agglutination test; qPCR

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  1. NIAID, National Institutes of Health [U19AI115658]

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This dataset includes data from febrile patients recruited for a large hospital-based study in Sri Lanka from 2016 to 2019. The variables include primary socio-demographic data, exposure data, clinical data, biochemical and investigation data. Patients with leptospirosis were diagnosed through a series of tests.
This dataset includes data from febrile patients recruited for a large hospital-based study in Sri Lanka from 2016 to 2019. The variables include primary socio-demographic data, exposure data, clinical data, biochemical and investigation data. Some of these data are available as serial data from admission to discharge daily. Microscopic agglutination test, quantitative PCR of whole blood, urine and serum and culture isolation was performed to diagnose the patients with leptospirosis. (C) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.

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