Infectious and parasitic diseases

Yellow fever: symptoms

At the onset of the disease there are symptoms of yellow fever, such as: hyperemia of the face, neck and upper body, pronounced vascular injection sclera, eyelid edema, swelling of the lips, puffiness of the face ("amarilla mask"). Characteristic photophobia and lacrimation.

Yellow fever: causes and pathogenesis

The cause of yellow fever is RNA-containing virus Viceronhilus tropicus of Flavivirus family Flaviviridae, belonging to the group of arboviruses. The capsid has a spherical shape; dimensions of about 40 nm.

Yellow fever: an overview

Yellow fever is an acute natural focal transmissible viral disease characterized by liver damage, hemorrhagic syndrome, severe cyclic course.

Omsk hemorrhagic fever

Omsk hemorrhagic fever (OGL) is an acute viral zoonotic natural focal disease with a transmissible mechanism of transmission of the pathogen, characterized by wave-like fever, general intoxication, development of hemorrhagic syndrome and vegetative-vascular dystonia, as well as CNS, lung, kidney damage and relatively benign course.

Crimean hemorrhagic fever: treatment

Specific treatment of Crimean hemorrhagic fever previously used hyperimmune specific horse y-globulin. At present, a certain experience of using ribavirin in patients with viral hemorrhagic fevers has been accumulated. In Stavropol Krai, the scheme of ribavirin treatment of patients with Crimean hemorrhagic fever was introduced into clinical practice in accordance with the recommendations of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is preferable to prescribe the drug in the first 4 days from the onset of the disease (the period of maximum viremia).

Crimean hemorrhagic fever: diagnosis

Crimean hemorrhagic fever is differentiated from other hemorrhagic fevers, influenza, leptospirosis, meningococcemia. Typhoid fever, surgical diseases with the syndrome of "acute abdomen"; and also from thrombocytopenic purpura (Verlhof's disease) with characteristic subacute onset, absence of a temperature reaction, hemorrhagic rash from small petechiae to major ecchymosis on the flexor surfaces of the extremities, trunk, frequent nasal and other bleeding, hypochromic anemia, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia and no changes on the part of cardio-vascular system.

Crimean hemorrhagic fever: symptoms

The initial period lasts 3-4 days; there are such symptoms of Crimean hemorrhagic fever as: a sudden rise in temperature, severe headache, aches and pains throughout the body (especially in the lower back), severe weakness, lack of appetite, nausea, and vomiting, not associated with eating

Crimean hemorrhagic fever: causes and pathogenesis

The cause of the Crimean hemorrhagic fever is arbovirus of the family Bunyaviridae, genus Nairovirus: spherical or ellipsoid form, size 90-105 nm; covered with a lipid-containing membrane with spines.

Crimean hemorrhagic fever

Crimean hemorrhagic fever (hemorrhagic fever Crimea-Congo-Hazer, Central Asian hemorrhagic fever, acute infectious capillarotoxicosis, Crimean-Congolese fever) is an acute viral natural focal infectious disease with a transmissible mechanism of transmission of the pathogen, characterized by fever, general intoxication, severe hemorrhagic syndrome and severe flow. Crimean hemorrhagic fever is considered dangerous infectious diseases.

Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome: treatment

Treatment of hemorrhagic fever with kidney syndrome is carried out in the initial period, in the first 3-5 days: ribavirin 0.2 g 4 times a day for 5-7 days

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