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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• granuloma inguinale
  10 October 2007

  Donovanosis

• systemic fungal infection
  27 May 2005

  disseminated fungal infections

• Helicobacter pylori–associated gastritis
  6 December 2011

  Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis; Helicobacter pylori gastritis

• lymphogranuloma venereum
  8 February 2005

  Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted disease and is caused by certain immunotypes of Chlamydia trachomatis.
  Synopsis
  genital ulcers
  ulcerous proctitis
  rectitis follicular lymphohistiocytic-plasmacytic infiltration in the submucosa, muscularis propria, and serosa neuromatous hyperplasia in the submucosal and myenteric plexuses extensive thickening and fibrosis of the bowel wall
  lymphogranuloma venereum proctocolitis
  inguinal syndrome with penoscrotal elephantiasis (...)

• chronic disseminated candidiasis
  15 December 2005

  disseminated chronic candidiasis, hepatosplenic candidiasis

• cat scratch disease
  8 December 2005

  Definition: Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a usually benign infectious disease caused by the intracellular bacterium Bartonella sp. (mostly Bartonella henselae). It is most commonly found in children following a scratch or bite from a cat by about one to two weeks. It was first discovered in 1889 by Henri Parinaud.
  Images
  Cat scratch disease: follicular hyperplasia, microabcesses with palisading histiocytes.
  https://twitter.com/CaryBureshMD/status/686636927601242116 (...)

• 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 (...)

• adult polyglucosan body disease
  3 January 2006

  Adult polyglucosan body disease is a late-onset, slowly progressive, autosomal recessive disorder affecting the central and peripheral nervous systems. Patients typically present after age 40 years with a variable combination of cognitive impairment, pyramidal tetraparesis, peripheral neuropathy, and neurogenic bladder. Other manifestations include cerebellar dysfunction and extrapyramidal signs. THis disease is an allelic disorder to type IV glycogen storage disease with GBE1 mutations (...)

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