نتایج جستجو برای: immunocompetent host

تعداد نتایج: 221753  

Journal: :Indian journal of medical microbiology 2008
M Dias S Nagarathna A Mahadevan B A Chandramouli A Chandramuki

Nocardial infection of the central nervous system is rare and usually manifests as brain abscess. Here we describe an elderly gentleman who presented with signs and symptoms of an intracranial mass lesion localising to the frontal lobe. Clinical examination and CT scan suggested neoplasia as the probable diagnosis. A biloculated abscess was seen at surgery. Aspiration of the contents and examin...

2017
Sohini Das Atul Ramchandra More Ramya Iyadurai

Bilateral primary renal aspergillosis is rare in immunocompetent hosts. The clinical presentation of Aspergillus pyelonephritis is similar to that of bacterial pyelonephritis. Here, we present an immunocompetent patient with primary bilateral renal abscesses due to Aspergillus fumigatus.

2011
Aydın ÇİLEDAĞ Gökhan ÇELİK Özlem ÖZDEMİR

A 54 year-old male patient was admitted to our clinic with dyspnea, dry cough and fever. Chest X-ray revealed pneumonic infiltration with air bronchograms involving all zones of right hemithorax. We observed radiological and clinical progress despite ceftriaxone, clarithromicin and bronchodilator for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The gram staining of bronchoalveolar lavage showed funga...

Journal: :Cureus 2023

Aspergillosis is a serious pathologic condition caused by Aspergillus that commonly affects immunocompromised patients. In recent years, it has been demonstrated infection can cause wide spectrum of pulmonary diseases, including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, chronic necrotizing aspergilloma, and invasive aspergillosis. The characteristic computed tomography (CT) findings the various ...

Journal: :Acta dermato-venereologica 2003
Carmine Coppola Giovanna Ferraioli Ferdinando Scarano

An immunocompetent 62-year-old woman presented with cutaneous lesions over her right arm and the hypogastrium. The diagnosis of cutaneous cryptococcosis was made on the basis of the demonstration and isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from the aspirated pus. The patient responded to fluconazole treatment.

2012
Irja Lutsar

Adenoviruses are nonenveloped doublestranded DNA viruses that were fi rst isolated from adenoidal cells in 1953 as part of a project searching for the virus causing the common cold. There are currently 57 recognized serotypes of human adenovirus, which can be divided into the subgroups (or species) A to G. There is tropism among these subgroups, with subgroups A and F typically causing infectio...

Journal: :Acta dermato-venereologica 2000
S Lakhanpal R K Pandhi B K Khaitan V K Iyer U Bannerjee

Sir, Primary cutaneous aspergillosis is rare and when seen it is usually associated with compromised immune status of the host. The lesions usually occur at the site of trauma, e.g. in a sick patient at the site of armboards, tapes or intravenous catheters. The fungus, Aspergillus, is a saprophytic dimorphic mould present in soil, decaying vegetation and organic debris. Clinically it involves t...

Journal: :Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 1999
R D Poduval R Mohandas D Unnikrishnan M Corpuz

Clostridium cadaveris bacteremia is extremely rare; the few cases reported in the literature have occurred in immunocompromised patients. We describe a case of C. cadaveris bacteremia in an immunocompetent host with necrotic decubitus. A 42-year-old nursing home patient with paraplegia, secondary to a gun shot injury, was admitted to the hospital on 8 March 1999 for fever and hypotension. He ha...

Journal: :BMJ case reports 2009
Mamun-Al-Mahtab S Rahman M Khan

BACKGROUND In inmunocompetent hosts, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is generally asymptomatic. It may however present as infectious mononucleosis. Serious complications have rarely been reported. We report three cases of acute CMV hepatitis in immunocompetent men for the first time from Bangladesh. All three presented to us with features of acute hepatitis of variable duration preceded by prod...

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