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AN outbreak of an epidemic of leptospirosis began in Israel in the middle of 1949 and is still continuing. From June 1949 until April 1950, more than a thousand cases were observed in a narrowly limited district—the plain of the Sharon. Some cases were very severe, showing hæmaturia, oliguria, azotæmia, jaundice, meningitis and episcleral injection; the death-rate was 2 per cent. Most of the sera of the patients agglutinated Leptospira grippo-typhosa and Leptospira bovis, the titres ranging from 1 : 200 to 1 : 20,000.
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OLEJNIK, E., SHNEYERSON, S. A New Strain of Leptospira in Israel. Nature 166, 526 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166526a0
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