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Published: 01 September 2024
BRUCELLOSIS Figure 14-2 BRUCELLOSIS Mechanisms by which Brucella spp cause disease in animals and transmission routes to humans. More about this image found in BRUCELLOSIS Mechanisms by which Brucella spp cause diseas...
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Published: 01 September 2024
DYSENTERY CAUSED BY ENTEROINVASIVE E. COLI (EIEC) Figure 13-3 DYSENTERY CAUSED BY ENTEROINVASIVE E. COLI (EIEC) High-power view of a colon biopsy shows mild changes, including vaguely linear neutrophil exocytosis between the crypt epithelium (“string of pearls”) (A) and an incipient neutrophilic microabscess (B). More about this image found in DYSENTERY CAUSED BY ENTEROINVASIVE E. COLI (EIEC) High-po...
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Published: 01 September 2024
CLOSTRIDIUM SPP Figure 13-23 CLOSTRIDIUM SPP A: C. botulinum causes flaccid facial paralysis. B: Opisthotonos in C. tetani infection. (Courtesy of the CDC PHIL) More about this image found in CLOSTRIDIUM SPP A: C. botulinum causes f...
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Published: 01 September 2024
NECROTIZING FASCIITIS CAUSED BY CLOSTRIDIUM SPP Figure 15-1 NECROTIZING FASCIITIS CAUSED BY CLOSTRIDIUM SPP A: There is pronounced necrotizing and purulent inflammation. B: Scattered causative gram-positive bacteria are demonstrated with special staining. (Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] Infectious Disease Pathology Branch [IDPB]) More about this image found in NECROTIZING FASCIITIS CAUSED BY CLOSTRIDIUM SPP A: There ...
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Published: 01 September 2024
RHINOCEREBRAL SINUSITIS CAUSED BY FUSARIUM SPP Figure 21-30 RHINOCEREBRAL SINUSITIS CAUSED BY FUSARIUM SPP Extensive necrosis, minimal inflammation (A), and characteristic fungal hyphae (B,C). More about this image found in RHINOCEREBRAL SINUSITIS CAUSED BY FUSARIUM SPP Extensive ...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-07
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...VIRAL MYOCARDITIS General Considerations, Including Etiology and Synonyms Myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle frequently associated with myocyte injury and cardiac dysfunction, can have various causes, including viral infection. An integral part of the definitive diagnosis...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-16
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
... of endocarditis are infectious in nature, endocardial inflammation can also be due to noninfectious causes (nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis [NBTE]). The latter group includes immune complex deposits in autoimmune disease (e.g., Libman-Sacks endocarditis in systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid...
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Published: 01 September 2024
BALANTIDIUM COLI Figure 26-13 BALANTIDIUM COLI A: Balantidium coli is a rare cause of colitis that may be confused with amebiasis on histology. This protozoan is usually at least three times the size of E. histolytica. B: B. coli also differ by having a ciliated surface. (Courtesy of Dr. R. Yantiss, Weill-Cornell Medicine, New York, NY) More about this image found in BALANTIDIUM COLI A: Balantidium coli is ...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-24
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...SPOROTRICHOSIS General Considerations, Including Etiology and Synonyms Sporotrichosis is a subacute to chronic invasive fungal infection caused by members of the Sporothrix schenckii sensu lato complex. The latter consists of five clades: S. brasiliensis, S. schenckii, S...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-13
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...OVERVIEW Acute Bacterial Gastrointestinal Infections Diarrheal disease due to gastrointestinal tract (GIT) infections is a major global health problem and remains one of the leading causes of child morbidity and mortality worldwide ( 1 ). Although a specific pathogen cannot be identified...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-25
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...TOXOPLASMOSIS General Considerations, Including Etiology and Synonyms Toxoplasma gondii, the cause of toxoplasmosis, is an obligate intracellular protozoan of domestic and wild cats that can also infect all warm-blooded animals (including birds), which serve as the intermediate...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-12
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...A wide range of bacterial pathogens can cause pneumonia and, in many instances, the disease is preceded by a viral infection. As one of the most striking examples, many of the deaths during the 1918 influenza virus pandemic were due to secondary bacterial pneumonia ( 1 ). Bacterial infections could...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-15
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
... threatening (such as necrotizing fasciitis). Table 15-1 presents the different types of skin and soft tissue infections, their characteristics, and the causative organisms. Infections that produce necrosis can occur in any skin or soft tissue layer, and their rapid progression and deadly consequence were...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-26
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...AMEBIASIS General Considerations, Including Etiology and Synonyms Amebiasis (also known as amebic dysentery) is an invasive intestinal infection caused by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. The species nomenclature histolytica refers to the destructive...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-19
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
... of organic matter. Fungi are divided into seven phyla based on their sexual reproductive structures, although only a few of the many genera are known to cause human disease. These medically important fungi are classified according to their pathogenicity ( fig. 19-1 ), growth on laboratory media ( fig. 19-2...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-21
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...BLASTOMYCOSIS General Considerations, Including Etiology and Synonyms Blastomycosis is caused by Blastomyces spp, a thermally dimorphic fungus that occurs as a yeast at body temperature (37°C) and as a mold at room temperature (22 to 25°C). Although B. dermatitidis...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-11
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...LISTERIOSIS General Considerations, Including Etiology and Synonyms Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative anaerobic, gram-positive bacillus that causes almost all cases of human listeriosis. Rarely, two other species, L. ivanovii and L. grayi, are implicated...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-02
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS, INCLUDING ETIOLOGY AND SYNONYMS Prions are unique transmissible protein particles (devoid of nucleic acid) that cause a group of neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals, known as spongiform encephalopathies. The term prion (proteinaceous infectious...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-03
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
... are included and are divided into three pathogenic groups. Those that cause encephalitis are able to cross the blood-brain barrier, those that cause liver disease have a tropism for hepatocytes, and those that cause vascular leakage primarily infect endothelial cells. The flaviviruses most frequently...
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Series: Atlases of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology, Series 5
Volume: 20
Published: 01 September 2024
10.55418/9781933477435-14
ISBN-10: 1-933477-43-1
ISBN: 978-1-933477-43-5
...BRUCELLOSIS General Considerations, Including Etiology and Synonyms Brucella species are facultative intracellular, fastidious, gram-negative bacilli or coccobacilli that cause the zoonosis known as brucellosis ( fig. 14-1 ). In humans, the disease is also known as Malta...
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