Doxycycline Usage for Prevention of Leptospirosis among Farmers and Reasons for Failure to Use Chemoprophylaxis: A Descriptive Study from Southern Sri Lanka

Table 2

Knowledge about the main clinical features and organ involvement in leptospirosis among farmers: frequency of how much people knew about each parameter.

	Number	%
Awareness of Symptoms/signs
Fever	248	77.7 (72.8-81.9)
Headache	67	21.0 (16.8-25.8)
Muscle pain	83	26.0 (21.5-31.1)
Low urine output	43	13.5 (10.1-17.6)
Yellow discoloration of eyes	25	7.8 (5.36-11.3)
Red bleeding areas in the eye	82	25.7 (21.2-30.7)
Don’t know	33	10.3 (7.46-14.17)
Awareness about organ/system involvement
Kidney	126	39.5 (34.2-44.9)
Liver	39	12.2 (9.07-16.2)
Blood related	48	15.0 (11.5-19.3)
Lungs	31	9.7 (6.93-13.4)
Nervous system related	39	12.2 (9.07-16.2)
Don’t know about any organ/system involvement	153	48.1 (42.5-53.4)