Infectious diseases

Articles

• digestive helminthiasis
  28 July 2007

  Videos
  Trichuris trichiura in the caecum
  See also
  helminthiases digestive helminthiasis
  helminths digestive helminths

• 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 (...)

• anisakiasis
  17 December 2003

  anisakiosis

• chronic disseminated candidiasis
  15 December 2005

  disseminated chronic candidiasis, hepatosplenic candidiasis

• 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#

• invasive candidiasis
  7 December 2005

  Invasive candidiasis is caused by blood-borne dissemination of Candida to various tissues or organs.
  Synopsis
  renal abscesses
  myocardial abscesses
  endocarditis
  meningitis
  cerebral microabscesses
  endophthalmitis
  hepatic abscesses
  Candida pneumonia
  Candida endocarditis most common fungal endocarditis usually occurring in the setting of prosthetic heart valves or in intravenous drug abusers.
  In any of these locations, the fungus may evoke little or no inflammatory (...)

• 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

• infectious endocarditis
  15 April 2005

  infective endocarditis

• Whipple disease
  20 January 2008

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  Whipple’s Disease by Ed Euthman
  Definition: Whipple’s disease (WD) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease of infectious origin caused by Tropheryma whipplei (TW).
  Abdominal pain and recurrent diarrhea are usually the main symptoms leading to the suspicion of a primary bowel disease. Systemic manifestations (...)

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