Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by a bacteria calledTreponema pallidum.The diagnosis typically involves the combination of a non-treponemal and treponemal blood test, both of which detect antibodies produced by the body in response to the infection. A positive result from a...
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Describe a laboratory test that could be used to confirm the diagnosis of a patient who is not infected with meningitis. The Gram stain test separates most types of bacteria into two groups. What steps are involved in this test? If you took a swab from a patient and cultured it on ...
How is it important? How does it affects people? How does cystic fibrosis affect the respiratory system? Why might an SIV chimpanzee in Southern Cameroon test positive to a human HIV test? How does meningitis affect the brain? What are the two main targets currently used in anti-HIV therapy...
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A 22-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital with a headache, stiff neck and photophobia but an intact mental status. Lab test reveal cryptococcal meningitis, an infection commonly associated with HIV infection. When given the diagnosis, she adamantly refuses to be tested for HIV. ...
3 Cullington HE: Light eye colour linked to deafness after meningitis. BMJ 2001; 322: 587. 4 Rasmussen M, Li Y, Lindgreen S et al: Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo. Nature 2010; 463: 757–762. 5 Bouakaze C, Keyser C, Crubezy E, Montagnon D, Ludes B: ...
But for people withcompromised immune symptoms, such as those withadvanced untreated HIV, the virus can sometimes disseminate (spread) to other parts of the body, causing potentially life-threatening complications like: Meningitis: Inflammation of the tissues that surround the brain and spinal cord3 ...
What is HIV? See Answer What are the other signs and symptoms of HIV? Frequent infections. Poor wound healing. Increased susceptibility to serious infections such as pneumonia (infection of the lungs), meningitis (infection of the brain), tuberculosis, fungal infection. Symptoms of other disease...
Streptococcus suis is a zoonotic agent that causes sepsis and meningitis in pigs and humans. S. suis infections are responsible for large economic losses in pig production. The lack of effective vaccines to prevent the disease has promoted the extensive