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.
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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 (...)

• 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 gastroenteritis
  27 January 2005

  CMV gastrointestinal infections

• cutaneous helminthiasis
  10 December 2004

  Types
  — Nematode (round worm)- 2mm-35cm round and slender nonsegmented body with collagenous epicuticle surrounding a coelomique cavity containing sexually reproductive organs and digestive tract.
  — - zoonotic north american Brugia
  — - enterobius vermicularis
  — - onchocerciasis
  — - lymphatic filariasis (Wuchereria bancorfti, Brugia malayi..)
  — - dirofilariasia conjunctivae infection
  — - dracontiasis
  — - cutaneous larva migrans (Ankylostoma caninum)
  — Cestode (tape worm)- cystic larva with (...)

• 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 (...)

• granuloma inguinale
  10 October 2007

  Donovanosis

• schistosomiasis
  17 March 2009

  Definition: Schistosomiasis infects approximately 200 million persons and kills approximately 280,000 annually. Most of the mortality comes from hepatic granulomas and fibrosis, caused by Schistosoma mansoni in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East and Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma mekongi in East Asia.
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  digestive schistosomiasis
  https://twitter.com/evacomperat/status/844876278671007744
  In addition, Schistosoma haematobium, found in Africa, causes hematuria and (...)

• zygomycoses
  9 November 2005

  mucormycosis, zygomycosis, Mucorales infection
  Definition: Zygomycoses are angioinvasive fungal infections due to fungi belonging to the genera of Mucorales (Rhizopus sp., Mucor sp., Rhizomucor sp., Absidia sp., Apophysomyces sp., Cunninghamella sp., and Saksenaea sp.)
  Zygomycosis (or mucormycosis) describes in the broadest sense any infection due to a member of the Zygomycetes.
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  Zygomycosis
  https://twitter.com/phmckee1948/status/881039185947144194
  Angioinvasive zygomycosis (...)

• infectious mononucleosis
  20 August 2004

  IMN; EBV-associated infectious mononucleosis

• adenoviral colitis
  23 May 2007

  See also
  Adenovirus
  adenoviral infections adenoviral digestive infections

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