Pseudoinfection Due to Mislabeling

Pseudoinfection due to mislabeling.

Capillaria hepatica Pseudoinfection

A 54-year-old male Matsigenka native from the Manu jungle of Peru presented with the eggs shown in Figure 1. Kato Katz (Figure 2) testing revealed 1,500 eggs/g stool. The white blood cell count with differential, liver enzymes, and sputum examination were normal. No treatment was administered; however, repeated stool testing was negative. Pseudocapillariasis caused by Capillaria hepatica was di...

Pseudoinfection of a total knee arthroplasty.

We were very interested in a recent report by Quale and Reese regarding pseudoinfection of prosthetic hip implants. 1 The references cited were inclusive and documented the varied kinds of situations in which pseudoepi-demics occur as well as the potentially significant consequences of such events. A similar situation recently occurred in our institution, suggesting that contamination of transp...

Mycobacterium gordonae pseudoinfection associated with a contaminated antimicrobial solution.

At Yale-New Haven Hospital, 46 specimens submitted for mycobacterial culture during an 8-week period in 1989 were positive for Mycobacterium gordonae, a nontuberculous acid-fast bacterium (AFB) of low pathogenicity. The specimens were submitted from 34 patients who came from various inpatient and outpatient services. Four patients were begun on antimycobacterial therapy on the basis of an AFB i...

Insensitivity to pain due to Genetic Mutation

Pain is neuroanatomically, psychologically and neurophysiologically complicated and its first function is protecting all alive creature body. This issue is so questionable and interesting that people who don’t feel pain how face this sensation and what problems threaten them. So many researchers by using 73 references, articles from electronical and library references have done a clinical...