If you don’t get antibiotics, your strep infection will be contagious for about two to three weeks after infection. But once you start taking an antibiotics regimen, your potential to infect others disappears after about 24 hours. For this reason, the CDC recommends that people with strep sta...
3.Infectious mononucleosis. 4.Intermetatarsal. 5.Internal medicine. 6.Intramedullary. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. IM Abbreviation for internal medicine; intramuscular. Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex...
A sore throat that does not respond to initial medical treatment may be a sign of another cause. For example: mononucleosis (a sexually transmitted disease), tumors in the throat, meningitis, or acid reflux. See your doctor if you have been treated for strep throat and it has not improved ...
the length of the cell, with chromatin strands that parallel the length of the nucleus; nucleoli and azurophilic granules may be present; ALs are seen in various non-neoplastic conditions, classically in infectious mononucleosis, toxoplasmosis, CMV infection, and viral hepatitis. See Azurophilic ...
In the spring of 1949 infectious mononucleosis was unusually prevalent in Brooklyn and other cities in that area. At this time a class of 102 medical students were engaged in carrying out white blood cell differen-tial counts on their own blood when it became apparent that the blood of about...
asschizophreniaandmononucleosisare invented andConn syndromeandHirschsprung’s diseaseare surnames. Such diagnoses cannot be constructed from morphemes that refer to the etiology, disorder or pathogenetic mechanisms. For this reason, proper names do not count as diagnoses in the present sense of the ...
The term is sometimes used for clinically similar allergic reactions to drugs.See also: immune complex disease. Synonym(s): serum disease, serum reaction Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012 serum sickness n. A hypersensitive reaction to the administration of a foreign serum, ...
Risks for it include genetic predisposition, recent limb or pelvic fracture, burns, surgery (esp. hip or knee replacement), long-term immobility, enforced immobilization (long car or plane trips or hospitalization), pregnancy, use of estrogen-containing hormonal contraceptives, postmenopausal hormones,...
Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs) are groups of lymphoid or plasmacytic disorders that the World Health Organization (WHO) categorizes into six classes: (1) plasmacytic hyperplasia PTLD, (2) infectious mononucleosis PTLD, (3) florid follicular hyperplasia PTLD, (4) polymorphic PTL...
CitiMed’s internists specialize in long term care. Internal medicine physicians and staff provide patients with a full spectrum of long-term healthcare, offering services from regular health exams to management of chronic disease. We treat patients for a variety of conditions, from minor health is...