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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

  • Suneth Agampodi
  • , Janith Warnasekara
  • , Sisira Siribaddana
  • , S. A.M. Kularatna
  • , Chandika Gamage
  • , Dinesha Jayasundara
  • , Indika Senevirathna
  • , Shalka Srimantha
  • , Chamila Kappagoda
  • , Prasanna Weerawansa
  • , Senaka Pilapitiya
  • , Niroshan Lokunarangoda
  • , Chamara Sarathchandra
  • , Hemal Senanayake
  • , Michael Matthias
  • , Joseph Vinetz
  • Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
  • Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya
  • Yale University School of Medicine

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number108378
JournalData in Brief
Volume43
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Leptospira
  • Leptospirosis
  • Microscopic agglutination test
  • qPCR

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