Laboratory Monitoring of Patients with HIV Infection
Patients with CD4+ T cell counts <200/L are at high risk of disease from P. jiroveci, while patients with CD4+ T cell counts <50/L are at high risk of disease from CMV, mycobacteria of the M. avium complex (MAC), and/or T. gondii. Patients with HIV infection should have CD4+ T cell measurements performed at the time of diagnosis and every 3&
80% of all new cases of tuberculosis were limited to the lungs
Symptoms and signs:
Nonspecific and insidious,
consisting mainly of fever and night sweats, weight loss, anorexia, general malaise, and weakness
Cough: nonproductive ->purulent sputum, blood streaking
Hemoptysis
Pleuritic chest pain
Dyspnea
Rales in the involved areas du
About tropical disease
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
My name is Min-Suk Kang.
I’m second year medical student at AUSOM.
I’m a member of Medical History Class.
The date is May 29, 2007
Today, the topic of my presentation is tropical disease Area.
Now answer picture and my explanation attentively.
What is tropical disease
Tropical diseases are infectious diseases that either occur unique
진단분자유전학
Molecular Techniques in Laboratory Diagnosis
of Infectious Diseases
16. Molecular Techniques in Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
1. introduction
- 미생물 감염
① culture
- in vitro에서 배양 실패 가능성 존재
- incubation 시간 오래 걸림
② 혈청학적 방법
(EIA,latex agglutinationd, direct and indirect fluorescence antibody test)
FUO 양상의 감염질환
- 결핵, 농양이 가장 흔함
- 그 중 결핵(폐외 결핵, 속립 결핵, 폐결핵) 이 단일 질환 중 가장 흔하다!!!
- 잠복 농양은 최근의 수술환자, 당뇨, 면역 억제자에서 복강 및 골반 내에 발생한다.
FUO 양상의 결체조직질환
-juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA, formerly called Still's disease) in younger pa
National Jewish Health 는 세 파트의 기관분과를 보유해 이 안에서 다양한 펠로우십 과정을 제공
Continuing Medical Education을 지향하여 수많은 요구조건을 수용하도록 프로그램 마련
의학분야 종사자를 교육뿐만아니라, Kunsberg School, 환자 교육 강좌, 건강관련 서적발행을 통한 일반대중과 환자에의 정보
DESIGN: The initial clinical and radiographic features of 229 PTB patients were compared with those of 70 patients with NTM lung disease. The most commonly involved organisms in the NTM lung disease cases were Mycobacterium avium complex (n 38, 54%) and M. abscessus (n 26, 37%).