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http://www.leptospirosis.org/medical/infection.php "There is no human vaccine licenced for use in Europe, Asia or the USA."
I found this page quite hard to digest as the text comes as a large unbroken chunk. I would suggest adding a table of contents and splitting the page into various chapters (features, diagnosis, treatment) as for example, the meningitis page. --Anon September 07, 2005
I second that. A lot of information is mentioned several times, and it's quite messy. As far as I can make out, is also all correct (I work for the WHO/Royal Dutch Institute Lepto-dept). I'm willing to 'correct' any changes made, if somebody else starts the editing... --
Bluuurgh 16:02 Thursday, October 13 2005 (UTC)
To me, the many jumps back and forth between Leptospirosis in humans & Leptospirosis in animals (dogs, primarily) was confusing. At several points it is hard to tell whether the information pertains to humans or dogs. I suggest overall organization along species lines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.200.165.111 ( talk) 01:39, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the drug dosages you mention, perhaps you should mention where you have obtained these values? Very good article otherwise!
Although there's good information in this article, it would be much more cohesive if the information about leptospirosis in animals were to be removed and placed in a separate article, perhaps entitled Leptospirosis (animals). It's not entirely clear whether some of the paragraphs in the current version of the article refers to leptospirosis in humans or animals or both. NighthawkJ ( talk) 18:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Also, it needs to be updated with modern information: there are new animal vaccinations out, which are supposed to actually be effective and longer-lasting. I can pick up a brochure from my vet next visit, but aside from the name of the manufacturer I don't think it's going to be an authoritative cite. Anybody? 207.178.110.185 ( talk) 01:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
helllo ok —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.17.188.95 ( talk) 06:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
"Approximately 5-50% of severe leptospirosis cases are fatal; however, such cases only constitute about 10% of all registered incidents."
"Approximately 5 to 50%"?! This is an entire order of magnitude! Do half these people die, or just 1 in 20? If there's any data at all, it should be able to approximate a little better than this. But there's no citation. And, I suspect, no data. As is, it reads like hand-waving plucked-out-of-the-air space filler.
"... however, such cases only constitute about 10% of all registered incidents." Well, the approximation's more meaningful, but now we have a subsequent clause trying to tame the prior one, and forcing the reader to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to derive meaning.
I would re-write this in a kinder way, but with no data to support it... well, revert me if I'm wrong, but I think it's better gone.
Thanks The Zig ( talk) 00:03, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I placed a {technical} tag at the beginning of this article. Even with a significant medical background, I had problems reading it. For the layperson, it probably seems like total gibberish. For example, it starts out discussing " serovars" when they could just as easily have been called "variations". Later on, " aetiotropic" is a nice $3 word that essentially means "antibiotic". There is a big difference between merely wikifying terminology and actually improving comprehension. Thus, the overall tone comes across as just a lot of WP:jargon: "Articles in Wikipedia should be understandable to the widest possible audience. For most articles, this means understandable to a general audience [emphasis in original]." — VoxLuna ☾ orbit land 23:46, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Can the reference to seasonal occurrence be updated, as the article specifically mentions "August–September/February–March". Are these Northern or Southern Hemisphere references.
Feebee06 ( talk) 10:56, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
This article is mostly based on human cases of leptospirosis, so there is no data on symptoms in animals; yet animals get this disease more often than humans IIRC... Arny ( talk) 13:35, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Since my change of relocating the life cycle figure to the History section was reverted, I thought that I should explain why I tried to place it there. The image was originally placed under History [1] by the author of the paper postulating that leptospirosis was the infectious disease that wiped out most of the Native Americans residing in present-day Massachusetts in the early 1600s. Most of the risk factors listed in the image are specific to the Native American lifestyle of the era. According to the caption of the image, "The Native American lifestyle exposed them to the leptospiral life cycle." This hypothesis is described in the History section. For an unknown reason, the image was later moved to the Prevention section [2]. To me, this location doesn't make sense for a figure listing risk factors specific to Native Americans of the 1600s. I believe that the image should be moved back to the History section, where the image was located originally. CatPath ( talk) 16:14, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
The prose is a bit rough and in the lede, there is mention of a 50% mortality rate in severe infections, but nothing to place context of numbers of severe infections vs mild to moderate infections. That is partially in the signs and symptoms section. Should we move the statistics of severity to the lede or move the mortality rate of severe infections down to the signs and symptoms section where it mentions 90% are mild and perhaps add moderate case data as well (with citations, of course)? The article in general has loads of good information, but it is somewhat hodgepodged together, I'll try to smooth that out later. Wzrd1 ( talk) 02:34, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
The Hideyo Noguchi article states that he created the vaccine for this disease but here that is not stated. Which is right? What did he do?
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Leptospirosis/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Human and animal info is all mixed up, should be split, either into separate article or separate section. Also needs more references, and is missing info on horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, and pinnipeds. -- Joelmills 14:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC) |
Last edited at 14:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 21:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
@ CatPath and Mathrick: Some time after this posting (where "this" obviously refers to the nearest preceding item, the 29 April 2014 substitution), CatPath indeed tried to separate human and (other) animal info, inter alia in this edit, moving much of the content of the Cause section to the Other animals one. Six weeks ago, here, Mathrick marked the remaining text as containing an unreferenced comparative more useful. I do not quite agree with Mathrick's assessment, since the section immediately preceding the 'offending' sentence indeed discussed some serogroup identification using MAT. In general, I think, that it should be permissible to refer to the immediately preceding text for a comparison, without repeating the item you compare to in the same sentence.
On the other hand, before CatPath's edit, the 'offending' sentence was part of a somewhat longer context, forming the following section:
CatPath: You removed the two italised sentences completely (without reproducing them in Other animals or elsewhere), and just left the third one. I am a bit unsure of whether the discussion of the strain identification also covers humans or not. If it does, perhaps putting back the two italised sentences could solve the problem. Of course, the starting word "Other" then referred to the dog strains, I suppose, whence a slight rewording might be necessary. JoergenB ( talk) 15:27, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
According to CNN, the break down of fresh water supply in the US colony Puerto Rico by the latest hurricane and the post-Hurricane lack of repair are causing an outbreak of Leptospitosis on the island. This should be covered in this artcle. -- L.Willms ( talk) 08:09, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
While the flurry of recent changes to the article is welcome, I question some of the content in the Pathogenesis section. The section starts off with a lengthy paragraph detailing results from a number of old experiments demonstrating the activities of various Leptospira proteins in vitro. There is little discussion of how these activities lead to tissue damage. Ditto for the second paragraph: how does the antibody response to LPS/leptospira proteins relate to disease? In my opinion, most of the first two paragraphs should be removed. If the consensus is to retain the two paragraphs, they should at least be updated to reflect more recent research findings. CatPath ( talk) 13:33, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
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User:Cerevisae not sure about this as a lead image. My concern is the cross eyes which I imagine is unrelated which sort of confuses things. Have clarified the caption a bit. I guess the question is do we just use one eye? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 14:05, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Not sure why the references are being removed User:Chhandama? You can comment them out but no justification for removal.
We already say this " It is a zoonotic disease transmitted by mammals." in slightly different works a bit lower.
This does not make sense "As a biphasic disease, with the first phase (acute or septic phase) ends after 3 to 7 days of illness." The fact that it is biphasic has no effect on the length of the first phase.
Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 11:41, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
The table showing the modified version of Faine's criteria was copied almost verbatim from Table 2 in the cited source. Should we be concerned about copyright even though it's a table? CatPath meow to me 06:40, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
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10.15347/WJM/2022.002.
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http://www.leptospirosis.org/medical/infection.php "There is no human vaccine licenced for use in Europe, Asia or the USA."
I found this page quite hard to digest as the text comes as a large unbroken chunk. I would suggest adding a table of contents and splitting the page into various chapters (features, diagnosis, treatment) as for example, the meningitis page. --Anon September 07, 2005
I second that. A lot of information is mentioned several times, and it's quite messy. As far as I can make out, is also all correct (I work for the WHO/Royal Dutch Institute Lepto-dept). I'm willing to 'correct' any changes made, if somebody else starts the editing... --
Bluuurgh 16:02 Thursday, October 13 2005 (UTC)
To me, the many jumps back and forth between Leptospirosis in humans & Leptospirosis in animals (dogs, primarily) was confusing. At several points it is hard to tell whether the information pertains to humans or dogs. I suggest overall organization along species lines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.200.165.111 ( talk) 01:39, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the drug dosages you mention, perhaps you should mention where you have obtained these values? Very good article otherwise!
Although there's good information in this article, it would be much more cohesive if the information about leptospirosis in animals were to be removed and placed in a separate article, perhaps entitled Leptospirosis (animals). It's not entirely clear whether some of the paragraphs in the current version of the article refers to leptospirosis in humans or animals or both. NighthawkJ ( talk) 18:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Also, it needs to be updated with modern information: there are new animal vaccinations out, which are supposed to actually be effective and longer-lasting. I can pick up a brochure from my vet next visit, but aside from the name of the manufacturer I don't think it's going to be an authoritative cite. Anybody? 207.178.110.185 ( talk) 01:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
helllo ok —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.17.188.95 ( talk) 06:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
"Approximately 5-50% of severe leptospirosis cases are fatal; however, such cases only constitute about 10% of all registered incidents."
"Approximately 5 to 50%"?! This is an entire order of magnitude! Do half these people die, or just 1 in 20? If there's any data at all, it should be able to approximate a little better than this. But there's no citation. And, I suspect, no data. As is, it reads like hand-waving plucked-out-of-the-air space filler.
"... however, such cases only constitute about 10% of all registered incidents." Well, the approximation's more meaningful, but now we have a subsequent clause trying to tame the prior one, and forcing the reader to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to derive meaning.
I would re-write this in a kinder way, but with no data to support it... well, revert me if I'm wrong, but I think it's better gone.
Thanks The Zig ( talk) 00:03, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I placed a {technical} tag at the beginning of this article. Even with a significant medical background, I had problems reading it. For the layperson, it probably seems like total gibberish. For example, it starts out discussing " serovars" when they could just as easily have been called "variations". Later on, " aetiotropic" is a nice $3 word that essentially means "antibiotic". There is a big difference between merely wikifying terminology and actually improving comprehension. Thus, the overall tone comes across as just a lot of WP:jargon: "Articles in Wikipedia should be understandable to the widest possible audience. For most articles, this means understandable to a general audience [emphasis in original]." — VoxLuna ☾ orbit land 23:46, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Can the reference to seasonal occurrence be updated, as the article specifically mentions "August–September/February–March". Are these Northern or Southern Hemisphere references.
Feebee06 ( talk) 10:56, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
This article is mostly based on human cases of leptospirosis, so there is no data on symptoms in animals; yet animals get this disease more often than humans IIRC... Arny ( talk) 13:35, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Since my change of relocating the life cycle figure to the History section was reverted, I thought that I should explain why I tried to place it there. The image was originally placed under History [1] by the author of the paper postulating that leptospirosis was the infectious disease that wiped out most of the Native Americans residing in present-day Massachusetts in the early 1600s. Most of the risk factors listed in the image are specific to the Native American lifestyle of the era. According to the caption of the image, "The Native American lifestyle exposed them to the leptospiral life cycle." This hypothesis is described in the History section. For an unknown reason, the image was later moved to the Prevention section [2]. To me, this location doesn't make sense for a figure listing risk factors specific to Native Americans of the 1600s. I believe that the image should be moved back to the History section, where the image was located originally. CatPath ( talk) 16:14, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
The prose is a bit rough and in the lede, there is mention of a 50% mortality rate in severe infections, but nothing to place context of numbers of severe infections vs mild to moderate infections. That is partially in the signs and symptoms section. Should we move the statistics of severity to the lede or move the mortality rate of severe infections down to the signs and symptoms section where it mentions 90% are mild and perhaps add moderate case data as well (with citations, of course)? The article in general has loads of good information, but it is somewhat hodgepodged together, I'll try to smooth that out later. Wzrd1 ( talk) 02:34, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
The Hideyo Noguchi article states that he created the vaccine for this disease but here that is not stated. Which is right? What did he do?
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Leptospirosis/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Human and animal info is all mixed up, should be split, either into separate article or separate section. Also needs more references, and is missing info on horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, and pinnipeds. -- Joelmills 14:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC) |
Last edited at 14:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 21:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
@ CatPath and Mathrick: Some time after this posting (where "this" obviously refers to the nearest preceding item, the 29 April 2014 substitution), CatPath indeed tried to separate human and (other) animal info, inter alia in this edit, moving much of the content of the Cause section to the Other animals one. Six weeks ago, here, Mathrick marked the remaining text as containing an unreferenced comparative more useful. I do not quite agree with Mathrick's assessment, since the section immediately preceding the 'offending' sentence indeed discussed some serogroup identification using MAT. In general, I think, that it should be permissible to refer to the immediately preceding text for a comparison, without repeating the item you compare to in the same sentence.
On the other hand, before CatPath's edit, the 'offending' sentence was part of a somewhat longer context, forming the following section:
CatPath: You removed the two italised sentences completely (without reproducing them in Other animals or elsewhere), and just left the third one. I am a bit unsure of whether the discussion of the strain identification also covers humans or not. If it does, perhaps putting back the two italised sentences could solve the problem. Of course, the starting word "Other" then referred to the dog strains, I suppose, whence a slight rewording might be necessary. JoergenB ( talk) 15:27, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
According to CNN, the break down of fresh water supply in the US colony Puerto Rico by the latest hurricane and the post-Hurricane lack of repair are causing an outbreak of Leptospitosis on the island. This should be covered in this artcle. -- L.Willms ( talk) 08:09, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
While the flurry of recent changes to the article is welcome, I question some of the content in the Pathogenesis section. The section starts off with a lengthy paragraph detailing results from a number of old experiments demonstrating the activities of various Leptospira proteins in vitro. There is little discussion of how these activities lead to tissue damage. Ditto for the second paragraph: how does the antibody response to LPS/leptospira proteins relate to disease? In my opinion, most of the first two paragraphs should be removed. If the consensus is to retain the two paragraphs, they should at least be updated to reflect more recent research findings. CatPath ( talk) 13:33, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
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User:Cerevisae not sure about this as a lead image. My concern is the cross eyes which I imagine is unrelated which sort of confuses things. Have clarified the caption a bit. I guess the question is do we just use one eye? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 14:05, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Not sure why the references are being removed User:Chhandama? You can comment them out but no justification for removal.
We already say this " It is a zoonotic disease transmitted by mammals." in slightly different works a bit lower.
This does not make sense "As a biphasic disease, with the first phase (acute or septic phase) ends after 3 to 7 days of illness." The fact that it is biphasic has no effect on the length of the first phase.
Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 11:41, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
The table showing the modified version of Faine's criteria was copied almost verbatim from Table 2 in the cited source. Should we be concerned about copyright even though it's a table? CatPath meow to me 06:40, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
This is one of the most popular pages in Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine's scope. Very few editors watch WT:VET's pages, which means that questions may not be answered in a timely manner. If you are an active editor and interested in animals or veterinary medicine, please put WT:VET on your watchlist. Thank you, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:59, 11 January 2021 (UTC)