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