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Descriptor English: Weil Disease
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedad de Weil
Descriptor enfermedad de Weil
Entry term(s) ictericia por espiroquetas
leptospirosis icterohemorrágica
Scope note: Forma grave de LEPTOSPIROSIS causada generalmente por LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE, y a veces por otras serovariedades. Es transmitida por las ratas a los seres humanos, y se caracteriza por síntomas hemorrágicos y renales con ICTERICIA asociada.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doença de Weil
Descriptor French: Maladie de Weil
Entry term(s): Disease, Weil
Disease, Weil's
Icterohemorrhagic Leptospirosis
Jaundice, Spirochetal
Leptospirosis, Icterohemorrhagic
Spirochetal Jaundice
Weil's Disease
Weils Disease
Tree number(s): C01.150.252.400.794.511.739
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014895
Scope note: A severe form of LEPTOSPIROSIS, usually caused by LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE and occasionally other serovars. It is transmitted to humans by the rat and is characterized by hemorrhagic and renal symptoms with accompanying JAUNDICE.
Annotation: if not caused by LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE, coord IM with specific Leptospira interrogans serovar (IM) or LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2003; see WEIL'S DISEASE 1963-2002
History Note: 2003 (1963)
Entry Version: WEIL DIS
DeCS ID: 15298
Unique ID: D014895
NLM Classification: WC 420
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2003/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Weil Disease - Preferred
Concept UI M0022917
Scope note A severe form of LEPTOSPIROSIS, usually caused by LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE and occasionally other serovars. It is transmitted to humans by the rat and is characterized by hemorrhagic and renal symptoms with accompanying JAUNDICE.
Preferred term Weil Disease
Entry term(s) Disease, Weil
Disease, Weil's
Icterohemorrhagic Leptospirosis
Jaundice, Spirochetal
Leptospirosis, Icterohemorrhagic
Spirochetal Jaundice
Weil's Disease
Weils Disease



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