Infectious diseases

Articles

• hepatitis B
  27 January 2004

  HBV

• 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 (...)

• PTLDs
  28 November 2003

  post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders, post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders

• parvoviral fetopathy
  8 December 2004

  Parvovirus B19 fetal infection

• CMV gastroenteritis
  27 January 2005

  CMV gastrointestinal infections

• cellulitis
  11 March 2005

  WKP
  Definition : Inflammation of adipose tissue.
  Cellulitis is a bacterial infection involving the inner layers of the skin. It specifically affects the dermis and subcutaneous fat.
  Signs and symptoms include an area of redness which increases in size over a few days. The borders of the area of redness are generally not sharp and the skin may be swollen.
  Types
  necrotizing cellulitis
  See also:
  hypodermitis
  abcess / abcesses
  acute inflammation
  References
  Swartz MN. (...)

• cutaneous north american brugiasis
  1 February 2010

  See also
  filariases
  brugiasis
  References
  Zoonotic deep cutaneous filariasis—three pediatric cases from Québec, Canada. Kokta V. Pediatr Dermatol. 2008 Mar-Apr;25(2):230-2. PMID: #18429786#
  Zoonotic Brugia infection in western Michigan. Eberhard ML, DeMeester LJ, Martin BW, Lammie PJ. Am J Surg Pathol. 1993 Oct;17(10):1058-61. PMID: #8372943#
  A Brugia species infecting rabbits in the northeastern United States. Eberhard ML, Telford SR 3rd, Spielman A. J Parasitol. 1991 (...)

• arboviroses
  6 February 2006

  Exemples
  yeloow fever
  dengue
  chikungunya
  Kyasanur Forest disease
  PAthogeny
  Etiologic agents of arboviral diseases are primarily zoonotic pathogens that are maintained in nature in cycles involving arthropod transmission among a variety of susceptible reservoir hosts.
  In the simplest form of human exposure, spillover occurs from the enzootic cycle when humans enter zoonotic foci and/or enzootic amplification increases circulation near humans.
  Examples include Eastern equine (...)

• leprosy
  17 March 2009

  Digital slides
  UI: - Tuberculoid leprosy.
  JRC:568 : Cutaneous leprosy.
  Image
  acid fast bacilli ( AFB )
  image : https://twitter.com/tejaspatel_dr/status/725713110238121984
  Encased neurovascular bundle. lepromatous leprosy
  https://twitter.com/SGottesmanMD/status/817527999880974336
  Definition: Leprosy, or Hansen disease, is a slowly progressive infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the skin and peripheral nerves and resulting in disabling deformities.
  Mycobacterium (...)

• invasive pulmonary aspergillosis
  15 December 2005

  Case records
  Case #11369
  See also
  pulmonary aspergilloses

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