The human bartonelloses are a group of diseases with a rapidly increasing clinical spectrum. Well known manifestations such as Carrion's disease, trench fever, cat-scratch disease, and bacillary angiomatosis are examples of Bartonella sp. infection. Along with these diseases, recurrent bacteremia, endocarditis, septicemia, erythema nodosum, erythema multiforme, trombocytopenic purpura and other...

Human Bartonellosis has an acute phase characterized by fever and hemolytic anemia, and a chronic phase with bacillary angiomatosis-like lesions. This cross-sectional pilot study evaluated the immunology patterns using pre- and post-treatment samples in patients with Human Bartonellosis. Patients between five and 60 years of age, from endemic areas in Peru, in the acute or chronic phases were i...

This report describes a patient with metastatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma treated with bevacizumab and nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel. The treatment was well tolerated and led to the stabilization of an aggressive variant of the disease. This case report is the first one that describes the activity of the combination of chemotherapy and bevacizumab in epithelioid hemangioendotheli...

Since the work of Besredka has popularised the methods of oral vaccination, different methods have been sought of effecting by means of oral administration, vaccination against cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid and bacillary dysentery. Numerous controlled attempts* in the course of important epidemics have led us to affirm the great preventative value of oral vaccines and especially bilivaccines pr...

A house based survey was conducted during 2007-2009 in a representative sample of population in Wardha district implementing Directly Observed Treatment Short Course strategy for tuberculosis (TB) control since 2001. The objective was to estimate prevalence of bacillary pulmonary TB (PTB) in individuals aged 15 years or above, and to estimate trends in prevalence when compared to a previous sur...

Epithelioid angiosarcoma is a rare high-grade tumor with irregular vascular morphology. We report an unusual case of intra-abdominal epithelioid angiosarcoma affecting the omentum and peritoneal surfaces resulting in significant hemorrhagic and inflammatory changes. As in other cases of this tumor this patient had previously undergone radiation treatment for a history of cervical cancer.

A COMPARISON Ltween the incidence of the enteric gr~up ~f {nfections and bacillary ,dyse~tery duriug the recent war evidences in a striking manner the effects bf prophylactic vaccination against the former group of . Jiseases. The occu!rrence of enteric infections almost disappeared, and the severity of those c~ses which did occur was much diminished. . On the other hand, bacillar~ dysentery wa...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Re: Article by Dr. H. Ghosh concerning the probable cause of the difficulty in treating chronic amoebic infection in your issue of January 1939. Sir,?I have not known a single uncomplicated case of chronic amoebic dysentery fail to respond to the emetine bismuth iodide and yatren lavage treatment laid down by Dr. Manson-Bahr. Those cases which relapsed ...

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taiwan Department of Radiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taiwan Department of Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taiwan ...

Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma (EHE), first described in 1982, is an uncommon malignancy comprising of around 1% of all vascular tumors and accurate diagnosis relies on specialist review of histology. Cervical spinal primaries are very rare and standard treatment for localised disease is surgery. Data regarding management of localized but unresectable tumors are limited. We undertook a liter...