Infectious diseases

• microbiota
  29 December 2018

  WKP
  protective microbiota
  Open references
  Protective Microbiota: From Localized to Long-Reaching Co-Immunity. Chiu L, Bazin T, Truchetet ME, Schaeverbeke T, Delhaes L, Pradeu T. Front Immunol. 2017 Dec 7;8:1678. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2017.01678. PMID: #29270167# Free

• infectious granule
  28 December 2018

  Examples
  sulfur granule / intestinal actinomycosis https://twitter.com/REP_Patologia/status/1078543968789581824
  See also
  infections morphology of infections / morphological diagnosis of infections

• sulfur granule
  28 December 2018

  Examples
  sulfur granule / intestinal actinomycosis https://twitter.com/REP_Patologia/status/1078543968789581824
  See also
  ingectious granule

• Entamoeba sp.
  14 November 2018

  Images
  https://twitter.com/JMGardnerMD/status/1062359945893609473
  See also
  amoebiasis

• Mycobacterium chimaera
  26 October 2018

  Mycobacterium chimaera was identified as a species within the Mycobacterium avium complex in 2004. Until recently, it was predominantly seen in immunocompromised patients. In 2015, an outbreak of disseminated M. chimaera disease was described in European patients after undergoing open-heart surgery in which contaminated heater-cooler water units were used.
  Mycobacterium chimaera hepatitis, the sinusoidal location of the granulomas contributes to the venous obstructive changes. Recognition (...)

• Histoplasma duboisii
  28 September 2018

  Open references
  Intestinal Histoplasmosis with Histoplasma duboisii in a Patient Infected by HIV-1 in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) https://www.omicsonline.org/intestinal-histoplasmosis-with-histoplasma-duboisii-in-a-patient-infected-by-hiv-1-in-abidjan-ivory-coast-2155-6113.1000125.php?aid=1974

• Alternaria sp.
  20 August 2017, by admin

  WKP
  Definition: Alternaria is a genus of ascomycete fungi. Alternaria species are known as major plant pathogens. They are also common allergens in humans, growing indoors and causing hay fever or hypersensitivity reactions that sometimes lead to asthma. They readily cause opportunistic infections in immunocompromised people such as AIDS patients.
  Images
  Alternaria sp. (...)

• Sarcina ventriculi
  13 July 2017

  Images
  Sarcina ventriculi involving gastric mucosa. https://twitter.com/ARP_Press/status/884162917943439361 https://twitter.com/AltaherN88/status/885454863513128961 https://twitter.com/GIPathologyURMC/status/729719360823136256

• disseminated pneumocystosis
  30 June 2017

  disseminated Pneumocystis
  Images
  Lymph node in HIV+ male. Disseminated pneumocystis: No budding, No thick capsules. Very uniform cup-shaped organisms. https://twitter.com/hematogones/status/880190615484604417
  Open references
  Disseminated pneumocystis carinii infection in AIDS. 1991. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC496664/
  Paywall references
  Disseminated Pneumocystis carinii infection causing extrapulmonary organ failure: clinical, pathologic, and immunohistochemical (...)

• liver fluke
  28 June 2017

  WKP
  Definition: Liver fluke is a collective name of a polyphyletic group of parasitic flat worms under the phylum Platyhelminthes.
  They are principally parasites of the liver of various mammals, including humans. Capable of moving along the blood circulation, they can occur also in bile ducts, gallbladder, and liver parenchyma. In these organs, they produce pathological lesions leading to parasitic diseases. They have complex life cycles requiring two or three different hosts, with (...)

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