Infectious diseases

Articles

• parasitic gastritis
  10 November 2005

  Images
  gastric anisakiasis
  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1509451
  The stomach is not a preferred site for human parasitic infections. Cryptosporidium spp. has been found lining the gastric mucosa, which was virtually free of inflammation.
  Several cases of giardiasis have been reported, virtually all in stomachs with extensive atrophy and intestinal metaplasia.
  Because most patients also have H. pylori infection, it remains unclear whether Giardia intestinalis causes (...)

• tetanus
  15 March 2009

  Tetanus, also called lockjaw, is a medical condition characterized by a prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibers. The primary symptoms are caused by tetanospasmin, a neurotoxin produced by the Gram-positive, obligate anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani.
  Infection generally occurs through wound contamination, and often involves a cut or deep puncture wound. As the infection progresses, muscle spasms in the jaw develop, hence the name lockjaw. This is followed by difficulty in (...)

• cryptococcosis
  14 March 2007

  cryptococcal infections, cryptococcoses

• infectious mononucleosis
  20 August 2004

  IMN; EBV-associated infectious mononucleosis

• cutaneous north american brugiasis
  1 February 2010

  See also
  filariases
  brugiasis
  References
  Zoonotic deep cutaneous filariasis—three pediatric cases from Québec, Canada. Kokta V. Pediatr Dermatol. 2008 Mar-Apr;25(2):230-2. PMID: #18429786#
  Zoonotic Brugia infection in western Michigan. Eberhard ML, DeMeester LJ, Martin BW, Lammie PJ. Am J Surg Pathol. 1993 Oct;17(10):1058-61. PMID: #8372943#
  A Brugia species infecting rabbits in the northeastern United States. Eberhard ML, Telford SR 3rd, Spielman A. J Parasitol. 1991 (...)

• granuloma inguinale
  10 October 2007

  Donovanosis

• mucosal leishmaniasis
  23 February 2006

  Mucosal leishmaniasis of the upper respiratory tract is usually associated with the visceral form or is found in immunosuppressed individuals. Primary mucosal leishmaniasis may occur in both immunosuppresed and immunocompetent patients who travel to or reside in areas endemic for Leishmania.
  Synopsis
  mucosal polypoid-like lesion
  See also
  mucosal leishmaniasis
  Leishmania donovani
  Leishmania infantum
  References
  Guddo F, Gallo E, Cillari E, La Rocca AM, Moceo P, Leslie K, Colby T, (...)

• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  17 May 2007

  Synopsis
  hepatic lesions portal edema portal inflammation in which large mononuclear cells and neutrophils predominate Rickettsia in portal spaces sinusoidal erythrophagocytosis hepatocytic necrosis biliary duct obstruction secondary to portal inflammation and portal edema
  hemolysis
  References
  Adams JS, Walker DH. The liver in Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Am J Clin Pathol. 1981 Feb;75(2):156-61. PMID: (...)

• leprosy
  17 March 2009

  Digital slides
  UI: - Tuberculoid leprosy.
  JRC:568 : Cutaneous leprosy.
  Image
  acid fast bacilli ( AFB )
  image : https://twitter.com/tejaspatel_dr/status/725713110238121984
  Encased neurovascular bundle. lepromatous leprosy
  https://twitter.com/SGottesmanMD/status/817527999880974336
  Definition: Leprosy, or Hansen disease, is a slowly progressive infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the skin and peripheral nerves and resulting in disabling deformities.
  Mycobacterium (...)

• Chikungunya
  23 February 2006

  See also
  arboviroses
  hemorrhagic fevers african hemorrhagic fevers

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