Diseases of children (pediatrics)

Meningococcal infection is an acute infectious disease with clinical manifestations from nasopharyngitis and asymptomatic carriage to generalized forms - purulent meningitis, meningoencephalitis and meningo-coccemia with the defeat of various organs and systems.

Listeriosis (leaf larynosis) - an acute infectious disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes, is accompanied by fever, symptoms of intoxication, frequent involvement of lymphoid formations of the pharyngeal ring, CNS, liver and spleen. The disease often proceeds according to the type of prolonged, often chronic sepsis.

Visceral leishmaniasis is a long-lasting disease with wave-like fever, hepatosplenomegaly, anemia and progressive cachexia. There are several variants of visceral leishmaniasis: kala-azar (causative agent of L. Donovani donovani), Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis (causative agent of L. Donovani infantum), East African (causative agent L. Donovani archibaldii), etc. All variants of visceral leishmaniasis have a similar clinical picture.

Legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease, Pontiac fever) is an acute infectious disease of bacterial etiology with fever, respiratory syndrome, lung damage, often GIT, central nervous system and kidneys.