Eosinophilia of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can be found in various parasitic infestations of the central nervous system. Angiostrongylus canto­ nensis is the most common etiologic agent of eosi­ nophilic meningitis in Thailand and its interme­ diate host is Pila snails (Punyagupta et ai, 1970). Humans are infected by this parasite after ingesting raw Pila snails. The common presenting sympto...

Death from P. falciparum infection in subjects who live in areas of stable malaria is usually due either to cerebral involvement or to the consequences of anaemia (Edington and Gilles, 1969). Almost all the data on increased resistance against malaria have been obtained in A/S heterozygotes, and there is no a priori reason to expect that they should apply to S/S homozygotes. In addition, one ca...

Clinical manifestations of leishmaniasis are diverse and related to the infecting species, its relationship with the environment and the host immune response. A case of late Andean cutaneous leishmaniasis with extensive manifestation is presented. The case was confirmed through microbiological and immunological studies; identification was performed by cytochrome b gene sequencing and the specie...

A 35-year-old man presented with a 3-week history of asymptomatic ulcerated lesions in the tongue (Fig. 1). He developed erythematous papules in the trunk and legs at the same time. The patient had no other systemic symptoms and reported having had unprotected sexual intercourse. Testing for the human immunodeficiency virus was positive. VDRL testing was positive with a titer of at least 1:64. ...

We report a case of an 8-year-old aborigine boy referred to our hospital for respiratory insufficiency with skin eruptions over the trunk and limbs. The skin condition was diagnosed as acquired ichthyosis. He also had a non-bleeding form of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. Radiograph of the lungs showed bilateral perihilar opacities with bilateral pleural effusion. The diagnosis of lept...

We propose "vector manifestation" (VM) of the Wigner realization of chiral symmetry in which the symmetry is restored at the critical point by the massless degenerate pion (and its flavor partners) and the rho meson (and its flavor partners) as the chiral partner, in sharp contrast to the traditional manifestation á la the linear sigma model where the symmetry is restored by the degenerate pion...

A case of neurocysticercosis in an 11 year old female manifesting only as myoclonic seizures is reported. The diagnosis was based upon ELISA test, computed tomography, and biopsy of a subcutaneous nodule. The patient responded to anticysticerci drug treatment. Neurocysticercosis has not to our knowledge been previously reported to have presented with myoclonus.

Paraneoplastic neurologic disorders are extremely rare in cancer patients and are most commonly associated with certain tumors, such as ovarian cancer, small cell lung cancer, and breast cancer. We report here a paraneoplastic neurological syndrome in a 53-year-old man with colonic adenocarcinoma with a solitary liver metastasis. His paraneoplastic syndrome was successfully treated by methylpre...

Based on the hidden local symmetry (HLS) Lagrangian as an effective field theory of QCD, we find that the chiral symmetry restoration for hot QCD can be realized through the Vector Manifestation where the ρ meson becomes massless degenerate with π as the chiral partner. This is done by including, in addition to the hadronic thermal effects due to the πand ρ-loops, the intrinsic temperature depe...

Though commonly encountered, extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) can sometimes present with variable clinical picture intricating the diagnosis (Avasthi et al., 2010). The nonspecific symptoms include pyrexia of unknown origin, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, meningitis, and, rarely, variety of hematological abnormalities, namely, anemia, pancytopenia, and leukemoid reaction (Avasthi et al., ...