Posts Tagged ‘Infection’
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The Sinus Fungal Infection
The Mayo Clinic has conducted studies demonstrating an association between sinus fungal infection and chronic sinusitis. Nasal steroidal sprays destroy the good flora of the nasal cavity, which predisposes one to a fungal infection of the sinus. One such study looked at the ability to test for sinus fungal infections in 54 patients who had a history of chronic sinusitis. Researchers found that with one of the testing methods, 100 percent of participants tested positive for fungus, while with another testing method, 76 percent showed signs of fungus.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
What is acute respiratory infections (ARI)?
ARI – acute respiratory infections (acute catarrh of the respiratory tract). A very common disease with a primary lesion of the respiratory tract. Due to different etiological agents (viruses, mycoplasma, bacteria). Immunity after the disease is strictly type-specific, such as influenza virus, parainfluenza, herpes simplex, rhinovirus. Therefore, the same person can suffer from acute respiratory disease up to 5-7 times a year. The source of infection is a person with clinically significant or deleted forms of acute respiratory illness. Equally important is a healthy virus carrier. Transmission occurs predominantly via droplets. Diseases found in the form of individual cases and epidemic outbreaks.
Acute respiratory infections (ARI)
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Psittacosis in humans
Psittacosis – an acute infectious disease of the groups of influenza. Characterized by fever, general intoxication, lung damage, nervous system, increased liver and spleen. Reservoir and source of infection – domestic and wild birds. Currently ornithosis agent isolated from more than 140 species of birds. Most epidemiological significance have pets and pet bird, especially the urban pigeons. The share of occupational diseases have 2-5% of the total number of cases. Infection occurs through the air, but in 10% of patients indicated food infection. Pathogen ornithosis related to chlamydia, in the external environment remains up to 2-3 weeks. Resistant to sulfanilamides, sensitive to the antibiotics Noroxin,
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
What is meningococcal disease?
Meningococcal disease – a disease caused by meningococcus, occurring in different clinical forms. In the external environment quickly, at a temperature of 55 degrees Celsius agent dies within 5 minutes, under the influence of disinfectants for 1-2 minutes, sensitive to penicillin, Levomycetinum, tetracyclines, sulfanilamides. The source of infection may be sick meningococcal meningitis, bacillicarriers. Ill intensely isolated microbes into the environment in the initial stage of the disease buy Revatio. Meningococcus carrier status in the recovery period lasts about 3 weeks. The mechanism of airborne infection. Often, sick children of preschool age. Maximum occurring in autumn-winter period.
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Prevention and symptoms of malaria disease
What is malaria?
Malaria – a group of vector-borne diseases. Characterized by acute attacks of fever and anemia. Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites, vectors – blood-sucking female mosquito genus anopheles.
The source of infection – a sick man and a carrier of the parasite. The disease is common in South-East Asia and Africa.
Prevention and symptoms of malaria disease
Symptoms, signs and course of malaria.
The duration of the incubation period with a three-day malaria, 14-20 days in the south, 7-14 months in the north, with tropical malaria 8-16 days. Many patients often appear prodromal (initial) symptoms: weakness, weakness, appetite loss, sleeping, chilling with mild fever, headache, and pain in muscles and joints buy Revatio. It lasts 2-3 days. Then a typical febrile seizure. A typical attack starts with a chill: of course cold, the tip of the nose and lips bluish. Stunning chill 30-40 minutes followed by heat. The temperature rises to 40-41 degrees Celsius. The patient’s condition deteriorates. Concerns are emerging, shortness of breath, severe headache, dizziness, back pain, extremity. Skin is dry, often grayish-yellow color, tongue coated white bloom. Palpation of the abdomen is painful. After 6-12 hours the heat is replaced by then. Critical temperature drops to subnormal. Interictal There comes a pause, the duration of which is connected with the periodicity of the process schizogonic – asexual reproduction in the human malaria parasite: 1 day at 3-day or 2 days at 4-day malaria.
Seizures may occur at any time of day. The number of paroxysms in the fresh, primary malaria reaches 8-12. In some cases, the parasites die and recovery occurs in the other – the circulation of the pathogen in the blood continues and possible early and late relapses.
Since the first attacks of malaria are increasing the size of the liver and spleen. There is growing anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, increased ESR. The most difficult proceeds tropical malaria, in which there is a threat of malaria coma (severe general intoxication, altered mental status, meningeal phenomena) due to the impact of parasites on the central nervous system.
Recognition of malaria.
Diagnosis is based on clinical and laboratory data and epidemiological history. All patients with suspected malaria conducted microscopic examination of blood (thick blood smear and). Detection of parasites is the only indisputable proof. Applied research and serological methods (XRF, Phragmites).
Treatment of malaria.
Sent to the fact that acute bouts of nausea, destroy gametes – reproductive cells of malarial parasites to stop transmission of infection and relapse. Medications are used quinine and 4-aminohinolinovye derivatives (primaquine, do Lago, fanzimif, etc.) on certain schemes.
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Q fever
What is Q fever?
Q fever. – Acute rickettsial disease characterized by general toxic phenomena, often with fever and atypical pneumonia. Pathogen – a small organism. Very resistant to drying, heat, ultraviolet irradiation. Reservoir and source of infection are various wild and domestic animals, and ticks. Infection of people are in contact with them, consumption of dairy products and airborne dust by. The disease is detected during the whole year, but more often in spring and summer. KU-fever is widespread across the globe, natural foci are found in 5 continents.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Rubella
Before the introduction of rubella immunization was epidemic disease. Epidemics occur every 6-9 years. In most cases, children were ill. Today in the widespread use of vaccination frequency of the disease decreased by almost 99 percent. But it turned out that it is now increasingly ill adolescents and young adults are not vaccinated Revatio. Outbreaks of infection occur in colleges and other educational institutions where there are a large number of young people. Recent studies have shown that 10-20 percent of young people susceptible to rubella, which is equivalent to that of the susceptibility, which was in the days before widespread use of vaccination.
Of particular concern are young women, because the disease can harm an unborn child.
Symptoms of rubella
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Infectious mononucleosis (Filatov’s disease)
What is infectious mononucleosis or Filatov’s disease?
It is believed that the agent – filterable virus Epstein-Barr virus. Infectious mononucleosis is possible only with very close contact with the patient’s healthy, is by airborne droplets. Most sick children. The incidence observed throughout the year, but higher in autumn months.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Yersiniosis (Pseudotuberculosis, Far Scarlatiniform fever)
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