Infectious agents

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• Cryptococcus neoformans
  29 August 2005

  Torula histolytica
  Definition: Cryptococcus neoformans (formerly known as Torula histolytica) is an encapsulated yeast-like fungus found in dried avian (particularly pigeon) and bat excreta, and in dust contaminated with such droppings.
  Images
  Cryptococcus disseminated to lung, spleen, kidney, thyroid.
  https://twitter.com/JMGardnerMD/status/866107567046610945
  granuloma with Cryptococcus neoformans
  https://twitter.com/smlungpathguy/status/877392725959749632
  Digital cases
  HPC:62 (...)

• Mycobacterium avium intracellulare
  20 July 2007

  Mycobacterium Avium-Intracellulare Complex
  Definition: Mycobacterium avium (which includes three subspecies) and Mycobacterium intracellulare are separate species, but the infections they cause are so similar that they are simply referred to as Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex, or MAC.
  Images
  hepatic MAI infection
  https://twitter.com/GIPathologyURMC/status/765234005474181120
  Mycobacterium avium complex enteritis
  https://twitter.com/ARP_Press/status/852288984034287617 (...)

• Epstein-Barr virus
  10 June 2003

  EBV

• Echinococcus granulosus
  7 December 2005

  Definition: Echinococcus granulosus, also called the Hydatid worm, is a cyclophyllid cestode that parasitizes the small intestine of canids as an adult, but which has important intermediate hosts such as livestock and humans, where it causes hydatid disease.
  Images
  hepatic cystic echinococcosis / Echinococcus granulosus
  https://twitter.com/RhondaYantiss/status/851519941299851265
  The adult tapeworm is about 5 mm long and has three proglottids ("segments") when intact. Like all (...)

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  4 June 2004

  Adj. pseudomonal

• Aspergillus sp.
  9 June 2004

  Aspergillus is common and widespread in nature and are most often found when crops are exposed to a high humidity environment over a long period of time or are damaged in stressful conditions such as drought, a condition which lowers the barrier to entry.
  The native habitat of Aspergillus is in soil, decaying vegetation, hay, and grains undergoing microbiological deterioration and it invades all types of organic substrates whenever and wherever the conditions are favorable for its growth. (...)

• Treponema pallidum
  10 October 2007

  See also
  Treponema sp.
  syphilis

• HIV
  21 November 2003

  Pahology (HIV infection)
  AIDS
  HIV-associated oral lesions
  HIV-associated vasculopathy
  HIV-associated lymphoproliferative disorders
  HIV-associated polymorphic lymphoproliferative disorders
  HIV-associated lymphomas
  Video
  HIV
  HIV biology
  HIV replication
  HIV infection of a cell
  Targeting HIV Replication
  HIV resistance
  HIV Life Cycle
  References
  De Clercq E. The design of drugs for HIV and HCV. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2007 Dec;6(12):1001-18. PMID: #18049474#
  Lieberman (...)

• cytomegalovirus
  14 April 2004

  HCMV, CMV

• Mycobacterium sp.
  23 April 2004

  mycobacteria, mycobacterias

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