| Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome | Infectious Diseases | 06/25/2008 |
| Hantaviruses are RNA zoonotic viruses that are transmitted to humans from rodent hosts. They are members of the family Bunyaviri... |
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| Brucellosis | Neurology | 06/08/2006 |
| Brucellosis is a zoonotic infectious illness to which humans became vulnerable at some point after the domestication of animals ... |
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| Dipylidiasis | Infectious Diseases | 10/24/2008 |
| Dipylidiasis is a common tapeworm infection of dogs and cats caused by Dipylidium caninum. Linnaeus first described dipylidiasis... |
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| Poxviruses | Infectious Diseases | 08/26/2008 |
| Poxviruses (members of the Poxviridae family) can infect both humans and animals. The orthopoxviruses include smallpox (variola)... |
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| Trematode Infection | Infectious Diseases | 06/30/2008 |
| Trematode infections occur worldwide. Trematodes, also called flukes, cause various clinical infections in humans. The parasites... |
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| Babesiosis | Infectious Diseases | 07/28/2008 |
| Babesiosis is a tick-borne malarialike illness caused by species of the intraerythrocytic protozoan Babesia. Humans are opportun... |
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| Brucellosis | Pediatrics: General Medicine | 01/25/2008 |
| The first clinical case compatible with brucellosis was credited to JA Maston, an assistant surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Co... |
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| Catscratch Disease | Emergency Medicine | 03/06/2008 |
| Catscratch disease (CSD) is an infrequent self-limiting infectious disease classically characterized by painful regional lymphad... |
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| CBRNE - Plague | Emergency Medicine | 05/02/2007 |
| The plague has caused more fear and terror than perhaps any other infectious disease in the history of humankind. It has laid cl... |
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| Ebola Virus | Infectious Diseases | 04/02/2008 |
| Ebola virus is one of at least 18 known viruses capable of causing the viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome. Although agents of the ... |
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| Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis | Gastroenterology | 11/06/2006 |
| Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is an uncommon gastrointestinal disease affecting both children and adults. EGE is characteri... |
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| Fascioliasis | Pediatrics: General Medicine | 02/05/2008 |
| Fascioliasis is an infection caused by flukes of the class Trematoda, most often characterized by fever, eosinophilia, and abdom... |
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| Fever of Unknown Origin | Infectious Diseases | 09/23/2008 |
| Fever of unknown origin (FUO) was defined in 1961 by Petersdorf and Beeson as the following: (1) a temperature greater than 38.3... |
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| Food Poisoning | Pediatrics: General Medicine | 06/20/2006 |
| Food-borne illnesses are diverse in etiology, and they can follow ingestion of infectious organisms or noninfectious substances.... |
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| Giardiasis | Pediatrics: General Medicine | 05/19/2006 |
| Giardia lamblia is a ubiquitous gastrointestinal protozoon that may be identified in individuals with asymptomatic colonization ... |
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| Gnathostomiasis | Pediatrics: General Medicine | 02/06/2008 |
| Gnathostomiasis is a rare infection that most often results from ingestion of the third-stage larvae of the nematode Gnathostoma... |
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| Intestinal Flukes | Infectious Diseases | 12/14/2007 |
| Numerous trematodes cause disease in humans. These include the schistosomes, which live in the gastrointestinal and genitourinar... |
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| Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus | Pediatrics: General Medicine | 02/06/2008 |
| Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is a single-stranded RNA virus of the family Arenaviridae. Other members of Arenavirid... |
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| Meningitis | Infectious Diseases | 11/26/2007 |
| Meningitis is the term to denote inflammation of the meninges. Clinically, this characteristically results in the occurrence of ... |
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| Parapoxviruses | Infectious Diseases | 05/26/2006 |
| Poxviridae are a family of oval, quite large, double-stranded DNA viruses. The genus Parapoxvirus is included among these viruse... |
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