钩端螺旋体病是由于致病性钩端螺旋体所致的一组疾病,它开始是以发热,出血现象,黄疸及肾功能损伤等“典型”症候而被认识的,但是经过医学界的多年来的研究,已对本病加深了了解,本病实际上包括许多不同临床表现的类型。过去我国对于本病一向认为是少见的疾病,但是经过我院热带病研究组两年多在广东、云南二省调查研究方面所做的一些工作来看,本病远非一种少见的疾病,使我们感觉到它是我国比较严重的流行性传染病之一,在某些地区每年都有严重的流行,造成人民健康上与经 Leptospirosis, a group of diseases caused by pathogenic Leptospira, is first recognized as a “classic” symptom of fever, bleeding, jaundice, and impaired renal function, but after years of medical attention Of the study, has become more aware of the disease, the disease actually includes many different types of clinical manifestations. In the past, our country has always considered this disease as a rare disease, but after some years of research done by our Tropical Disease Research Unit in Guangdong and Yunnan provinces, the disease is far from a rare disease, Make us feel that it is one of the more serious epidemic diseases in our country and that there are serious epidemic every year in some areas,