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LEPTOSPIROSIS ACCOMPANYING COVID-19: A CASE REPORT

YAKUP DEMİR, ÇİĞDEM MERMUTLUOĞLU

Journal of Clinical Trials and Experimental Investigations - 2022;1(2):60-63

Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Diyarbakır, Turkey

 

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.