Infectious and parasitic diseases

Rotavirus infection

Rotavirus infection (rotavirus gastroenteritis) is an acute infectious disease caused by rotaviruses, characterized by symptoms of general intoxication and gastrointestinal damage with the development of gastroenteritis.

Poliomyelitis: Treatment

Patients with poliomyelitis (and even with suspected poliomyelitis) are subject to emergency isolation in specialized departments or boxes. There are no specific antiviral agents. Absolute rest is mandatory in the preparative and paralytic periods, as any physical load accelerates development and increases the severity of paralysis.

Poliomyelitis: diagnosis

Diagnosis of poliomyelitis is based on a characteristic clinical picture (acute onset of the disease with fever, development of meningoradicular syndrome, peripheral paresis, paralysis with hypotension, hypo- or areflexia, hypo- or atrophy without sensitivity disturbance) and epidemiological data: contact with patients or newly vaccinated.

Poliomyelitis: Symptoms

The inpatient form of poliomyelitis, which develops in almost 90% of cases, is a healthy virus carrier, with no symptoms of poliomyelitis, and the virus does not go beyond the lymph glotopharynx and the intestine. About the transferred infection judged by the results of virological and serological studies.

Poliomyelitis: causes and pathogenesis

The causative agent of poliomyelitis is the RNA-containing poliovirus of the family Picornaviridae of the genus Enterovirus, 15-30 nm in size. There are 3 serotypes of the virus: I - Brunhilda (isolated from a sick monkey with such a nickname), II - Lansing (isolated in Lansing) and III - Leon (isolated from the sick boy MacLeon). All types are close in their structure and differ in the sequence of nucleotides.

Polio

Poliomyelitis [from the Greek .polio (gray), myelos (brain)] is an acute viral anthropo-infectious disease with a fecal-oral mechanism of transmission of the pathogen, which is characterized by a predominant lesion of the motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain with the development of paralysis.

Enterovirus infections: treatment and prevention

Hospitalization is carried out according to clinical indications. There is no etiotropic treatment of enterovirus infections. Carry out detoxification treatment of enterovirus infections.

Enterovirus infections: diagnosis

The diagnosis of enterovirus infection in the event of an epidemic outbreak and typical clinical manifestations usually does not cause difficulties, but requires laboratory confirmation. It is often difficult to diagnose atypical and mild forms of the disease.

Enterovirus infections: symptoms

The incubation period of enterovirus infection is from 2 to 10 days, an average of 3-4 days. Often there are combined signs of various clinical forms - mixed forms of enterovirus diseases.

Enterovirus infections: causes and pathogenesis

The pathogenesis of enterovirus infections has not been studied enough, since viruses can multiply in the intestinal wall without causing disease. The disease occurs when the resistance of the body decreases.

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