Essays on Infectious Disease

ABSTRACT We are presented with a 43-year-old, Gravida 0, from Samar, Philippines, with last menstrual period on April 7, 2016, presenting with Abnormal Uterine bleeding of 5 months duration. Total Abdominal Hysterectomy Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy with frozen section, Peritoneal fluid cytology, Omentectomy bilateral lymph node dissection,…

Living with HIV: Who Has the Right to Know? Securing a subject’s health information is a delicate issue and must be dealt with in a meticulous manner. For that reason, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was made to ensure that a subject’s…

Infectious diseases are diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms like viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites and can be spread either directly or indirectly from one individual to another. They are transmitted through various routes including sexual transmission, oral transmission, direct contact, fecal-oral transmission, and vertical transmission….

Preventing Infectious Diseases Contracting an infectious disease can happen to anyone simply by how it is transmitted. Studies indicate that humans can contract these diseases from one another, insects, animals, even food and water that have been exposed to bad organisms in the environment. Some…

Urinary tract infection is a serious infection which causes contamination in urethra, bladder, ureters or kidneys. There are four urinary tract from where urine passes through our body. Normal kidneys drain urine through two ureters into our bladder. Our bladder collects urine from kidney and…

“”H.pyloir”” (“H.pyloir”) had a micro-aerophilic, Gram–ve, spiral-shaped, slow-growing, flagellated organism which infects more than half of the world’s human population (Wen, Moss, 2009). “H.pyloir” colonization itself does not cause any treated, fewer than 20% of all disease cases would treat treated from their disease (Mishra,…

Infection in immunocompetent individuals usually unnoticed. After primary infection of different cell types for example epithelial cells of the liver, lungs, kidney, salivary glands, large intestine, placenta endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts, neuronal cells and myeloid cells (Sinzger et al., 1995), HCMV stays latent…

Maastricht IV consensus states that if triple therapy fails, either levofloxacin-containing triple therapy or a bismuth-containing quadruple therapy could be used as second-line therapy (Malfertheiner et al., 2012). Levofloxacin-containing therapy could be used as second-line therapy in case of failure of triple-therapy or as second-line…

The disease known cholera has existed for hundreds of years. Originally believed to have a point of origin somewhere in China, it’s been a prevalent illness in Asia for centuries. While it is not a considerable issue in developed countries, many developing and “Third-World” countries…

The exclusion of pathogen is essential for having pathogen free areas. F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense may not be eradicated from an area once it is infested .So quarantine regulations are needed.The regional awareness and contingency programs should be considered in all threatened areas (Ploetz…