Infectious diseases

Articles

• 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 (...)

• CMV hepatitis
  8 December 2004

  Definition: CMV is the most important cause of opportunistic hepatitis in immunocompromised patients. 20% of patients with liver allograft develop CMV hepatitis.
  Images
  CMV inclusion in a portal space
  https://twitter.com/liverpath/status/818267259944767488
  Synopsis
  cytomegalic cytopathic effects
  enlarged cells
  cytomegalic nuclear inclusions
  large, glassy masses in the nucleus, separated by a clear halo from the irregularly thickened nuclear membrane
  cytomegalic cytoplasmic (...)

• 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 (...)

• tuberculosis
  22 August 2004

  Digital case
  HPC:154 : Mycobacterial adenitis
  Links
  Tuberculosis in The Yale Rosen Collection of Pulmonary Pathology on Flickr
  Localization
  pulmonary tuberculosis
  SNC tuberculosis
  meningeal tuberculosis (tuberculous meningitis )
  cerebral tuberculosis
  synovial tuberculosis
  tenosynovial tunerculosis (tuberculous tenosynovitis )
  renal tuberculosis
  serous tuberculosis
  pleural tuberculosis
  pericardial tuberculosis
  peritoneal tuberculosis
  genital tuberculosis
  tubal (...)

• digestive helminthiasis
  28 July 2007

  Videos
  Trichuris trichiura in the caecum
  See also
  helminthiases digestive helminthiasis
  helminths digestive helminths

• hepatitic candidiasis
  29 December 2003

  Candida hepatitis

• hepatitis B
  27 January 2004

  HBV

• EBV hepatitis
  6 April 2004

  Epstein-Barr viral hepatitis

• Cellulitis
  11 March 2005

  Inflammation of adipose tissue.
  See also:
  hypodermitis
  References
  Swartz MN. Cellulitis. N Engl J Med. 2004 Feb 26;350(9):904-12. PMID: #14985488#

• systemic fungal infection
  27 May 2005

  disseminated fungal infections

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