Infectious and parasitic diseases

Invasive Candidiasis: Candidemia and Acute Disseminated Candidiasis

Invasive candidiasis, as a rule, occurs in patients with risk factors, characterized by severe clinical manifestations and high attributable lethality (10-49%).

Especially dangerous infections

Especially dangerous infections (synonyms: biological weapons) - a group of diseases, which include the following infections: plague, anthrax, smallpox, which can be used as biological weapons or for terrorist purposes.

Invasive aspergillosis

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is becoming an increasingly common disease in immunocompromised patients. The frequency of IA in patients in the ICU can reach 1-5.2%.

Nosocomial infections

Nosocomial (from lat nosocomium - hospital and Greek nosokomeo - care for the sick) infection is any clinically recognizable infectious disease that develops in the patient as a result of his treatment in the hospital for treatment or stay in it.

Viral meningitis

Viral meningitis is considered one of the relatively favorable types of inflammation and is most often treated as an outpatient. Viral meningitis is affected mainly by children, less often by young people under 30 years old, the epidemiological peak falls on the summer period and is associated with an outbreak of enterovirus infections, respectively, the causative agent of the disease in 80% of cases - RNA-containing enterovirus ECHO.

Intoxication of the body: symptoms and diagnosis

Intoxication of the body almost always accompanies a serious trauma and in this sense is a universal phenomenon, which, from our point of view, has not always been given enough attention.

Salmonella enteritis

Salmonellosis enteritis is an acute toxic infection that is caused by salmonella. The group of high risk of infection includes products such as eggs, milk and meat.

Pertussis in adults

Pertussis, despite the fact that this disease is considered a problem of many years ago, continues to meet periodically in clinical practice, most often in pediatrics. This is an infectious disease, which, as a rule, is acute, cyclic, characterized by specific symptoms.

Rotavirus infection in children

Rotavirus infection in children is one of the diseases that are also called "diseases of dirty hands". Distribution of rotavirus occurs in the household plan through products, toys, bedding and all horizontal surfaces in the room with which the child is in contact.

Antiretroviral Therapy

Before the appointment of antiretroviral therapy in each case, it is necessary to perform a clinical and laboratory examination of the patient, determine the clinical indications and contraindications, evaluate the laboratory parameters and, based on the data obtained, develop an acceptable treatment regimen.

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