Infectious agents

Articles

• 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 (...)

• Mycobacterium sp.
  23 April 2004

  mycobacteria, mycobacterias

• Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
  2 January 2006

  CCHFV

• Sarcoptes scabiei
  25 January 2005

  Images
  Biopsy of a pruritic rash on her foot of a girl. Scabies https://twitter.com/ERDENEROZER/status/742420655405207552
  Pathology
  scabies
  See also
  arthropods arachnids acari Sarcoptes sp. Sarcoptes scabiei

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  4 June 2004

  Adj. pseudomonal

• Staphylococcus aureus
  5 February 2006

  Staphylococcus aureus organisms are pyogenic, nonmotile, Gram-positive cocci that form grapelike clusters. These bacteria cause a myriad of skin lesions (boils, carbuncles, impetigo, and scalded skin) and also cause osteomyelitis, pneumonia, endocarditis, food poisoning, and toxic shock syndrome (TSS).
  Staphylococcus aureus organisms are pyogenic, nonmotile, Gram-positive cocci that form grapelike clusters. These bacteria cause a myriad of skin lesions (boils, carbuncles, impetigo, and (...)

• Candida sp.
  4 May 2004

  Adj. candidal

• Brugia (genus)
  9 December 2004

  Types
  Brugia malayi
  north american Brugia
  Pathology
  zoonotic North American Brugia

• smallpox
  2 January 2006

  References
  Jahrling PB, Fritz EA, Hensley LE. Countermeasures to the bioterrorist threat of smallpox. Curr Mol Med. 2005 Dec;5(8):817-26. PMID: #16375715#

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