Infectious diseases

Articles

• infectious mononucleosis
  20 August 2004

  IMN; EBV-associated infectious mononucleosis

• syphilis
  18 October 2005

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

• chronic active EBV-infection
  24 December 2010

  CAEBV

• 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#

• infectious endocarditis
  15 April 2005

  infective endocarditis

• 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

• Helicobacter pylori–associated gastritis
  6 December 2011

  Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis; Helicobacter pylori gastritis

• parasitic gastritis
  10 November 2005

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  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 (...)

• 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.
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  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 (...)

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