leptospiremia

English

Etymology

From leptospira +‎ -emia.

Noun

leptospiremia (uncountable)

1. (pathology) The presence of leptospirae in the blood
   • 2015 July 16, “Reverse-Transcriptase PCR Detection of Leptospira : Absence of Agreement with Single-Specimen Microscopic Agglutination Testing”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The lack of agreement between molecular testing and single-specimen MAT likely resulted from the clearance of leptospiremia coinciding with the appearance of agglutinating antibodies in serum during the immune phase of illness [2 ,3 ,22 ].

Related terms

• leptospiremic