syndrome: Recurrent "Cold" staphylococ-cal abscesses. Pseudolymphoma syndrome, as a hypersensitive reaction to anticonvulsant drugs especially phenytoin, carbamaze-pine, tridone and phenobarbitone is well known(l-4). Its pathogenesis is uncertain. It consists of a triad of fever, generalized rash and lymphadenopathy. Varying degrees of VOLUME 34-SEFTEMBER 1997 7. Hill HR, Quie PG. Raised IgE le...

Recurrent pharyngo-tonsillar infections caused by group A beta-hemolytic streptococci (GABHS) occur frequently in young children, and the treatment of these infections contributes substantially to the total current requirement for antibiotic prescribing. Our study goal was to assess through a retrospective observational analysis whether the administration of the oral probiotic, Streptococcus sa...

Uncomplicated Urinary tract infections are common in adult women across the entire age spectrum, with mean annual incidence of 15% and 10% in those aged 15-39 and 40-79 years, respectively. Urinary tract infection (UTI), with its diverse clinical syndromes and affected host groups, remains one of the most common but widejly misunderstood and challenging infectious diseases encountered in clinic...

Uncomplicated Urinary tract infections are common in adult women across the entire age spectrum, with mean annual incidence of 15% and 10% in those aged 15-39 and 40-79 years, respectively. Urinary tract infection (UTI), with its diverse clinical syndromes and affected host groups, remains one of the most common but widejly misunderstood and challenging infectious diseases encountered in clinic...

Repeated episodes of acute, symptomatic urinary tract infections in domiciliary patients have been shown to be due to reinfection in 71% of instances and to recrudescence of the original infection in 29%. Fresh episodes occurring at intervals of less than eight weeks from the original infection were due to reinfection or to recrudescence of infection in roughly equal numbers but those at interv...

Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is a primary immunodeficiency disease characterized by early onset of severe bacterial infection and persistent severe neutropenia. We describe an SCN patient with a history of recurrent infections. The clinical course was complicated by necrosis of the nasal cartilage due to mucormycosis. Molecular studies revealed a homozygous germline HAX1 mutation. Fungal...

Rheuniatic fever is a recurrent disease which frequently can be prevented. Infection with group A streptococci precipitates both initial and recurrent attacks; therefore, prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease depends upon the control of streptococcal infections. This may be accomplished, one by prevention of streptococcal infections in rheumatic subjects, and, two by early a...

Chronic granulomatous disease CGD is a condition of inability to deal with bacterial and fungal infections, due to defective respiratory burst in neutrophils leading to recurrent cutaneous and visceral infections. Usually a disease of childhood, but patients nowadays survive to adulthood, and diagnosis might be difficult if not considered. We describe a 20-year-old female with previously undiag...

Good's syndrome is extremely rare and refers to an acquired B and T cell immunodeficiency in thymoma patients. We report a 51-year-old female thymoma patient who presented with recurrent herpes zoster, pneumonia, diarrhea and opportunistic infections. She was found to have acquired hypogammaglobulinemia with absent B cells. Despite repeat intravenous immunoglobulin replacement and antibiotic th...