Micronutrients and Leptospirosis: A Review of the Current Evidence.

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Published in PLoS Negl Trop Dis on July 07, 2016

Authors

Heather S Herman1, Saurabh Mehta1,2, Washington B Cárdenas3, Anna M Stewart-Ibarra4, Julia L Finkelstein5

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America.
2: St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
3: Laboratorio de Biomedicina, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
4: Department of Medicine and the Center for Global Health and Translational Science, State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America.
5: Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;

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