Fatalities result from renal or myocardial failure, with rare fatal haemoptysis and respiratory failure in recent cases of lai infection.
Adenovirus strains 4 and 7 are most often associated with swimming pool—related diarrheal illness and can also cause common cold symptoms and conjunctivitis.
This bacterium lives in the kidney tubules of carrier animals, which include mainly wild and domestic farm animals such as rats, cattle, dogs, and pigs.
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Those at high risk of infection should be advised to seek medical care promptly if they develop a febrile illness.