Epidemiological investigation of a human leptospirosis case reported in a suburban area near Marseille

Abstract

Leptospirosis has been re-emerging in both developed and developing countries, including in Europe, where the phenomenon has notably been associated with urban transmission. In this work, we describe an epidemiological investigation that demonstrated a case of human infection due to peri-urban transmission of Leptospira interrogans serovar icterohaemorrhagiae in southeastern France.

Keywords

• Environmental exposure
• Leptospira interrogans
• leptospirosis
• peri-urban transmission
• rodent transmission
• zoonoses