Infectious diseases

Articles

• 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 (...)

• 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 ++
  https://twitter.com/JRamirezMD/status/782747788907991040
  Secondary syphilis: "condyloma" appearance. Dense plasma (...)

• actinomycosis
  7 April 2005

  Synopsis
  sulfur granule
  Digital case
  JRC:410 : pulmonary actinomycosis.
  Images
  tubal actinomycosis : pyosalpinx / Actinomyces sp. https://twitter.com/solcosao/status/715295386072559617
  sulfur granule / intestinal actinomycosis https://twitter.com/REP_Patologia/status/1078543968789581824
  Localization
  pulmonary actinomycosis
  cervicofacial actinomycosis
  periapical actinomycosis
  pelvic actinomycosis
  tubal actinomycosis
  mammary actinomycosis
  adrenal actinomycosis (...)

• Alternariosis
  5 October 2010

  Alternaria infections

• HHV6-associated hepatitis
  9 November 2005

  Synopsis
  severe liver dysfunction
  drowsiness
  fulminant hepatic failure
  microvesicular steatosis (resembling that of Reye syndrome)
  human herpesvirus-6 variant B (HHV-6B) DNA in liver tissue by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and in the endothelium of the portal vein by in situ hybridization (ISH).
  References
  Aita K, Jin Y, Irie H, Takahashi I, Kobori K, Nakasato Y, Kodama H, Yanagawa Y, Yoshikawa T, Shiga J. Are there histopathologic characteristics particular to fulminant (...)

• bacterial myositis
  20 April 2006

  See also
  Myositis

• hepatic fungal granuloma
  30 January 2006

  See also
  hepatic granulomas hepatic tuberculoid granuloma (hepatic tuberculoid granuloma)
  fungal granulomas

• aspergillus vasculitis
  18 November 2005

  See also
  Aspergillus invasive aspergillosis
  Vasculitis infectious vasculitis

• pulmonary helminthiasis
  7 December 2005

  Exemples
  pulmonary hydatid cysts (pulmonary echinococcosis)
  See also
  parasitic infections helminthiases

• fungal vasculitis
  18 November 2005

  See also
  fungal infections
  Vasculitis infectious vasculitis

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