Leptospirosis accompanying COVID-19: A case report

Yakup Demir; Çiğdem Mermutluoğlu

doi:10.5281/zenodo.6980315

Authors

Yakup Demir Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Diyarbakır, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2419-3436
Çiğdem Mermutluoğlu Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Diyarbakır, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1836-6281

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6980315

Keywords:

Covid-19, leptospirosis, pandemic

Abstract

The SARS CoV-2 virus, which broke out in Wuhan, China in december 2019 and took over the whole world, was declared as pandemic by the World Health Organization on march 11, 2020. COVID-19 disease caused by this virus, another zoonotic factor in the Coronavirus family, can affect various systems, particularly the respiratory system. Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Leptospira. It presents symptoms of fatigue, febrile, and icterus. We aimed to present a case in which the association of SARS CoV-2 with leptospirosis was detected.

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