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BACKGROUND
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is the most frequent microsporidian parasite of human patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and is a significant cause of diarrhea and wasting. Recently, this organism has also been recognized as a spontaneous infection of several species of captive
Serositis is commonly seen in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Approximately 16% of patients with SLE have pleural or pericardial involvement. However, peritoneal involvement is extremely rare, and clinically seen in a small group of patients. This is the case report of a 47-year old female with
Çakan M, Aktay-Ayaz N, Keskindemirci G, Karadağ ŞG. Two cases of periodic fever syndrome with coexistent mevalonate kinase and Mediterranean fever gene mutations. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 467-470. The periodic fever syndromes are autoinflammatory diseases that present with recurrent fever, serositis
The objective of this study was to determine whether 2 distinct chlamydial isolates recovered from the intestines and feces of diarrheic nursery pigs could cause intestinal lesions in gnotobiotic pigs. Both isolates share biological characteristics with Chlamydia trachomatis. Chlamydial isolates R27
Polyamide (peptide) nucleic acids conjugated with membrane-penetrating peptide are potential antisense therapeutic agents because of their unique chemical properties, high target specificity, and efficient cellular uptake. However, studies of their potential toxicity in animal models are lacking. In
Beginning in 2015, athymic nude sentinel mice from conventional, medium-, and high-security facilities presented to the Comparative Pathology Laboratory (CPL) with weight loss, diarrhea, and/or rectal prolapse. Regardless of whether clinical signs were present or absent, the gross observation of
Whipple's disease is a rare, systemic disorder characterized by arthritis, serositis, diarrhea, malabsorption, lymphadenopathies, weight loss, fever, cutaneous hyperpigmentation and central and peripheral nervous system disorders. There are approximately 60 published cases with pulmonary
BACKGROUND
Familial Mediterranean fever is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease, mainly characterized by periodic fever and serositis. The level of awareness about familial Mediterranean fever is far from sufficient, and it is assumed that there may be many patients with this disease who are under
Although gastrointestinal symptoms are not rare in Systemic lupus erythematosus, enteritis is an atypical manifestation of the disease. We report a 54 year-old woman who presented acute symptoms of diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain, receiving empiric antibiotic therapy for bacterial enteritis with
Severe systemic manifestations of adult onset Still's disease (AOSD) are often fatal and occasionally related to hemophagocytic syndrome (HS). We describe the case of a 49-yr-old woman with AOSD presenting with non-remitting high fever, confusion, jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, serositis, azotemia,
There are many causes of acute abdominal pain, or abdominal "crises," in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), most frequently the causes are serositis or vasculitis. Vasculitis generally causes small vessel abnormalities and may present with symptoms owing to mucosal damage, such as
The usefulness, efficacy, safety, and tissue effects of Nd:YAG laser photocoagulation were investigated prospectively in 100 patients. Sixty-seven elderly patients with colorectal adenoma and 21 patients with rectal stump polyps after colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis in familial polyposis were
One hundred ninety-five adult patients with refractory or first relapse acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) were randomly assigned to receive high-dose cytarabine (HiDAC), 3 g/m2 as a three-hour intravenous (IV) infusion every 12 hours for four doses, followed by 6,000 IU/m2 asparaginase (ASNase)
An outbreak of Pasteurella anatipestifer infection in young wild waterfowl at the Niska Waterfowl Research Center resulted in losses of approximately 100 Blue and Snow Geese, one White-fronted Goose, five Mandarin Ducks, one Black Duck and one Wood Duck. Clinical signs included diarrhea, paralysis
Endometriosis of the intestinal tract may mimic a number of diseases both clinically and pathologically. The authors evaluated 44 cases of intestinal endometriosis in which endometriosis was the primary pathologic diagnosis, and evaluated them for a variety of gross and histologic changes. Cases