Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome : Causes
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This disorder is most common in children. It often occurs after a gastrointestinal (enteric) infection, caused by a type of E. coli bacteria (Escherichia coli O157:H7. It has also been associated with other enteric infections, including Shigella a...
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While most families that have a form of HUS that passes on the disease in an autosomal recessive pathway, there have been some families with signs of autosomal dominant transmission. Genetic tests have found that a region on chromosome 1q can play...
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While most families that have a form of HUS that passes on the disease in an autosomal recessive pathway, there have been some families with signs of autosomal dominant transmission. Genetic tests have found that a region on chromosome 1q can play...
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The most common way an E. coli O157:H7 infection is contracted is through the consumption of under-cooked ground beef (e.g., eating hamburgers that are still pink inside). Healthy cattle carry E. coli within their intestines. During the slaughteri...
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Travelers to areas where yellow fever is present should be vaccinated a minimum of 10 days prior to entering a yellow fever zone...Certificates of immunization may be required for entrance into some countries if the travel has just been in an endemic zone...Below is a listing of countries and some of the diseases you may encounter there...
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An infection is a condition in which viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites enter the body and cause a state of disease. Such invaders are called pathogens.
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Detailed information on the most common infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, chickenpox, chronic fatigue syndrome, common cold, diphtheria, E. coli, giardiasis, infectious mononucleosis, influenza (flu), lyme disease, malaria, measles, meningitis, mum
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Although the word meningitis suggests an inflammation of the meninges only, there is always some involvement of the most superficial parts of the brain that are contiguous to the meninges. Often there are also alterations in the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
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Infectious diseases have always caused illness and death, but in the last decade, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has noticed a disturbing trend: The number of new infectious agents has been on the rise. These include the West Nile virus, monkey pox and hantavirus.
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Detailed information on digestive inflammatory and infectious disorders in children
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Detailed information on the most common infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, chickenpox, chronic fatigue syndrome, common cold, diphtheria, E. coli, giardiasis, infectious mononucleosis, influenza (flu), lyme disease, malaria, measles, meningitis, mum
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Detailed information on infectious diseases in children
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Detailed information on the most common types of inflammatory and infectious disorders in children
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Detailed information on the most common inflammatory and infectious disorders in children
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Infection is the invasion and replication of microorganisms- viruses , bacteria , protozoa, or fungi - in body tissues. There are thousands of infectious agents that can cause human disease.
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Detailed information on infections in children
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Detailed information on infectious diseases in children
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Glossary of terms relating to infectious diseases
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Glossary of terms relating to infectious diseases
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Detailed information on prevention of infectious diseases
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Detailed information on infectious diseases on the job
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Detailed information on pets and infectious diseases
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Detailed information on pets and infectious diseases
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Detailed information on the most common infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, chickenpox, chronic fatigue syndrome, common cold, diphtheria, E. coli, giardiasis, infectious mononucleosis, influenza (flu), lyme disease, malaria, measles, meningitis, mum
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Detailed information on infectious diseases in children
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List of online resources to find additional information on infectious diseases
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List of online resources to find additional information on infectious diseases
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A communicable disease is an illness caused by a specific infectious agent or its toxic products. It arises through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person, animal, or inanimate reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly or indirectly (through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment).
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The term " emerging infection, " first widely used in the early 1990s, refers to newly identified and previously unknown infectious agents that cause public health problems either locally or internationally. Their impact, in terms of economic repercussions, goes well beyond the immediate costs to health systems.
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The phrase " filth diseases " was coined in 1858 by British physician Charles Murchison to describe a class of conditions, mostly caused by infectious pathogens, that were associated with squalid living conditions- the overcrowded, unsanitary, and vermin-infested dwellings that were all too numerous in urban areas in the nineteenth century. It was an evocative phrase, popular with social reformers and pioneers of the Public Health movement and the Sanitary Revolution.
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The tropics are usually defined as that part of the equatorial world bounded by the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Defining a tropical infectious disease is not as straightforward.
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Statistics relating to infectious disease
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Detailed information on emerging infectious diseases and how travelers can minimize their risk of infectious diseases
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