Toxocariasis is a chronic infectious disease caused by the larvae of the toxocara roundworm. The invasion is characterized by fever, recurrent rashes and an increase in the size of the liver. Pathology is accompanied by damage to the eyeballs and internal organs: heart, brain, lungs. Diagnosis consists in the detection of specific antibodies to the…
Taeniasis is helminthiasis caused by parasitism in the small intestine of pork tapeworm and characterized by signs of digestive disorders and astheno–neurotic manifestations. The course is accompanied by a decrease in appetite, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, stool disorders, dizziness and headaches, sleep disorders, fainting states. A dangerous complication of taeniasis can be cysticercosis of the…
Teniarynchosis is a parasitic disease from the group of biohelminthiasis, manifested by symptoms of damage to the digestive tract and toxic-allergic reactions. With teniarynchosis, nausea, abdominal pain, unstable stools, a sharp increase in appetite and weight loss, independent crawling of parasite segments through the anus, asthenovegetative and neurotic syndromes, urticaria are observed. The diagnosis of…
Typhus – rickettsiosis, occurring with destructive changes in the vascular endothelium and the development of generalized thrombovasculitis. The main manifestations of typhus are associated with rickettsiemia and specific vascular changes. They include intoxication, fever, typhoid status, roseolus-petechial rash. Complications of typhus include thrombosis, myocarditis, meningoencephalitis. Confirmation of the diagnosis is facilitated by laboratory tests (RPH,…
Strongyloidiasis is an invasion of round helminths – intestinal acne, occurring with allergic and gastrointestinal syndromes. The manifest course of strongyloidiasis is accompanied by itchy skin rashes, cough with an asthmatic component, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, myalgia, arthralgia, hepatosplenomegaly, jaundice of the skin and sclera. The diagnosis is confirmed by the detection of worm larvae in feces…
Streptococcal infections are a group of diseases, including infections caused by streptococcal flora of different types and manifested in the form of lesions of the respiratory tract and skin. Streptococcal infections include streptococcal impetigo, streptoderma, streptococcal vasculitis, rheumatism, glomerulonephritis, erysipelas, sore throat, scarlet fever and other diseases. Streptococcal infections are dangerous due to the tendency…
Tetanus is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani, with an acute course and a predominant lesion of the nervous system. Spores of the causative agent of tetanus can persist for a long time in the soil, water and on any objects. Human infection occurs when clostridium penetrates through damaged skin or mucous…
Sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal lesion of the body with typical skin manifestations. Isolated pulmonary, osteoarticular and generalized (involving all organs and systems) variants of the disease may be observed. Usually the pathology is accompanied by rashes on the skin and mucous membranes, fever of varying severity. Diagnostics involves the detection of fungus using laboratory…
AIDS is a stage of a chronic infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. The manifestations of the disease are caused by a progressive decrease in the immune forces of the body, often have a generalized character and are caused by conditionally pathogenic flora. AIDS diagnostics is aimed at determining the presence and quantity…
Sleeping sickness is a protozoic, the causative agent of which is the simplest genus Trypanosoma, and the carriers are blood–sucking tsetse flies. The symptoms are characterized by the formation of primary affect at the site of the bite (trypanosomal chancre), wave-like fever, lymphadenitis, skin rashes, local edema, increasing drowsiness, paralysis, mental disorders, coma. Diagnosis is…