SUBACUTE INDURATIVE PNEUMONIA.

Detection of Shigella sonnei in a respiratory specimen in a patient with subacute atypical pneumonia.

BACKGROUND Pneumonia caused by shigellosis with or without typical dysentery in immunocompetent patients is an uncommon entity. CASE REPORT We describe a case of pneumonia in an immunocompetent, previously healthy middle-aged man from Switzerland without relevant travel history which was presumably caused by Shigella sonnei. He was originally admitted for suspected lung cancer. The clinical p...

Mycobacterium genavense as a cause of subacute pneumonia in patients with severe cellular immunodeficiency

BACKGROUND Mycobacterium genavense is a rare nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). Human infections are mostly disseminated in the setting of the AIDS epidemic or the use of aggressive immunosuppressive treatments. M. genavense culture is fastidious, requiring supplemented media. Pulmonary involvement rarely occurs as a primary localization. CASES PRESENTATION We report here two patients with pn...

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in Iran

Subacute Inflammatory Arthritis Following Intravascular Coagulation Syndrome

Un nourisson de six mois a ete hospitalise dans le .,ervice de pediatrie du C.H.U. de Logmandolhe-Adham pour: deshydratation, etat septique, acidose metabolique, troubles circulatoires des membres avec gangrene de la main droite.  Le syndrome de la coagulation intra-vasculaire disse­minee (CID) a ete rapidernent confirme par l'etude de la erase sanguine. Soumis a un traitement par: solutes 6le...

Indurative Edema of the Prepuce Mimicing Phimosis, an Atypical Manifestation of Primary Syphilis.

ACTA DERMATOVENEROLOGICA CROATICA Dear Sir or Madam, We report the case of a of 23-year-old married man from a rural area admitted to the emergency room of the Urology Clinic because of a marked edema of the free edge of the prepuce that was infiltrated, painless, and prevented retraction. The edema appeared 3 days earlier, without inguinal lymphadenopathy. As primary syphilis was suspected, th...