The in vitro activities of enrofloxacin, florfenicol, oxytetracycline and spiramycin were determined against field isolates of Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides large colony (MmmLC) by means of the broth microdilution technique. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of these antimicrobial drugs were determined for a representative number of 10 isolates and 1 type strain. The susceptibility of...

abstract necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, life-threatening infection most commonly seen in patients with diabetes mellitus, intravenous drug abuse, and immunocompromised conditions. the extremities are the primary sites of involvement in as many as two thirds of the cases. in a significant proportion of patients, the extremities are involved as a result of trauma, needle puncture or extravasati...

Stomatitis is a common complaint which is usually considered to run a benign course, although Ebbs (1938) has suggested that during infancy certain forms of the disease may have serious consequences. An attempt has been made to throw further light on the matter by the study of one-hundred-andfifteen children suffering from stomatitis who attended the Casualty Department of the Children's Hospit...

Chronic ulcerative stomatitis (CUS) is a mucocutaneous disorder which is characterised by persistent oral mucosal ulceration. The clinical appearance is often reminiscent of oral lichen planus (OLP) leading to erroneous diagnoses. The immune mediated inhibition of the CUS protein (CUSP) is implicated in the pathogenesis of CUS. CUSP acts as an anti-apoptotic protein and when its action is preve...

introduction: kikuchi-fujimoto disease or histocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is a rare, benign, self-limited condition characterized by constitutional symptoms, lymphadenopathy, and skin lesions and often affects young adult females.the etiology is unknown although viruses and autoimmune mechanisms has been suggested. diagnosis is fundamentally based on the affected lymph node biopsy.the pati...

purpose : to report an atypical case of acanthamoeba keratitis. patients & methods : a 19-year-old girl presented with a history of recurrent herpetic keratitis and a history of short-time contact lens wear. laboratory work-up for herpetic, bacterial, and acanthamoeba sources were negative and the patient failied to follow up. on later presentation she had corneal necrotizing stromal ulcer need...

Introduction Systemic vasculitis is often difficult to diagnose. The recent discovery of a new class of auto-antibodies, the anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic auto-antibodies (ANCA), provides clinicians with a serological test strongly supportive of the diagnosis of the commonest forms of systemic necrotizing vasculitis. ANCA are IgG autoantibodies specific for different constituents of neutrophil az...