Infectious diseases

Articles

• cryptococcosis
  14 March 2007

  cryptococcal infections, cryptococcoses

• syphilis
  18 October 2005

  Definition: Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum is the microaerophilic spirochete that causes syphilis, a chronic venereal disease with multiple clinical presentations.
  Images
  Primary syphilis - Chancre
  https://twitter.com/JHW806/status/733298742502129666
  Secondary syphilis: psoriasiform pattern + lichenoid infiltrate with histiocytes great clue. Plasma cells ++
  https://twitter.com/JRamirezMD/status/782747788907991040
  Secondary syphilis: "condyloma" appearance. Dense plasma (...)

• infectious mononucleosis
  20 August 2004

  IMN; EBV-associated infectious mononucleosis

• bacterial meningitis
  10 May 2005

  Examples
  meningococcal meningitis
  References
  Kim KS. Pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis: from bacteraemia to neuronal injury. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2003 May;4(5):376-85. PMID: #12728265#

• infectious endocarditis
  15 April 2005

  infective endocarditis

• condyloma
  20 June 2007

  condyloma accuminata WP
  Definition: Condylomas are HPV-associated squamous cell papilloma localized on genital ( genital condyloma ) or anal ( anal condyloma ) mucosa.
  Images
  condyloma https://twitter.com/NRiddleMD/status/730566150480744448
  Wikimedia 1: Condyloma acuminatum
  Wikimedia 2 : Condyloma acuminatum
  Genital warts (or condylomata acuminata, venereal warts, anal warts and anogenital warts) are symptoms of a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease caused by some (...)

• progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  6 October 2005

  PMLE, LEMP
  Definition: The only human disease caused by an infection with the human JC polyomavirus (JCV) is progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) characterized by a lytic infection of oligodendrocytes with consecutive demyelination.
  Images
  Bizarre nuclei of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. JC virus ISH. https://twitter.com/chioseasi/status/880093686037491717
  Etiology
  HIV infection
  genetic immunodeficiencies
  JC virus infection
  See also
  papovavirus (...)

• bacterial endocarditis
  28 November 2005

  See also
  Heart cardiac valves
  Endocarditis
  cardiac infectious diseases infectious endocarditis
  References
  Atkinson JB, Virmani R. Infective endocarditis: changing trends and general approach for examination. Hum Pathol. 1987 Jun;18(6):603-8. PMID: #3596581#
  Eide J. Bone infarcts in bacterial endocarditis. Hum Pathol. 1982 Jul;13(7):631-4. PMID: #7084939#

• parvoviral myocarditis
  8 December 2005

  References
  Lamparter S, Schoppet M, Pankuweit S, Maisch B. Acute parvovirus B19 infection associated with myocarditis in an immunocompetent adult. Hum Pathol. 2003 Jul;34(7):725-8. PMID: #12874772#
  Pankuweit S, Moll R, Baandrup U, Portig I, Hufnagel G, Maisch B. Prevalence of the parvovirus B19 genome in endomyocardial biopsy specimens. Hum Pathol. 2003 May;34(5):497-503. PMID: #12792925#
  Bultmann BD, Klingel K, Sotlar K, Bock CT, Baba HA, Sauter M, Kandolf R. Fatal parvovirus (...)

• Coxsackie virus myocarditis
  8 December 2005

  Coxsackie viral myocarditis

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