Opportunistic and Deep Mycoses

Coccidioides immitis  ( Southwest USA) Located in desert soil Characteristic structures In the environment:  Arthroconidia In the body:  Sph...

Microscopic morphology of Aspergillus

Medical Mycology Microscopic morphology of Aspergillus fumigatus showing typical columnar, uniseriate conidial heads. Conidiophores are shor...

Syphilis

Syphilis is primary a sexually transmitted disease caused by the Spirochete T.Pallidum. Starting with a small lesion (chancre), several prog...

Secretory Diarrhea.

Infectious: viral damage to mucosal epithelium Rotavirus Caliciviruses Enteric adenoviruses Astroviruses Infectious: enterotoxin mediated Vi...

Etiology of Respiratory Infections.

Defects in innate immunity (including neutrophil and complement defects) and humoral immunodeficiency -pyogenic bacteria cell-mediated immun...

Community Acquired Atypical Pneumonia.

Atypical implies moderate amounts of sputum, absence of physical findings of consolidation, only moderate elevation of white cell count, an...

Community-Acquired Acute Pneumonias.

onset is usually abrupt, with high fever, shaking chills, pleuritic chest pain, and a productive mucopurulent cough Usually as a result of a...