Infectious and parasitic diseases

Amoebiasis - Causes and Pathogenesis

The causes of amebiasis are Entamoeba histolytica, which belongs to the kingdom Protozoa, subtype Sarcodina, class Rhizopoda, order Amoebia, family Entamoebidae.

Amoebiasis - Overview

Amebiasis is an anthropozoonotic protozoan disease with a fecal-oral transmission mechanism. It is characterized by ulcerative lesions of the colon, a tendency to chronic recurrent course, extraintestinal complications in the form of abscesses of the liver and other organs.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a sporadic or familial prion disease. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) is considered a variant of CJD.

Prion diseases: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Prion diseases are a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by progressive brain damage and death.

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (subcortical encephalopathy) is a slow viral infection of the central nervous system that develops in immunodeficiency states.

HIV dementia

AIDS caused by HIV is characterized by CNS damage, which can also be attributed to slow infectious processes in the CNS. The pathogenesis of CNS damage in neuroAIDS is associated with the direct neurotoxic effect of the virus, as well as with the pathological effect of cytotoxic T cells and anti-brain antibodies.

Lymphocytic choriomeningitis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (Acute serous meningitis of Armstrong) is a zoonotic viral infectious disease characterized by predominant damage to the meninges and choroid plexuses of the central nervous system.

Progressive rubella panencephalitis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Progressive rubella panencephalitis develops gradually. Characteristic: cerebellar ataxia, spastic syndrome, epileptic seizures, progressive dementia. In the cerebrospinal fluid there is low pleocytosis, increased protein content, mainly y-globulins. The course is progressive. The prognosis is unfavorable.

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

The causative agent of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is the measles virus, which was found in the brain tissue of patients. This encephalitis affects children and adolescents who have had measles in the first 15 months of life. The incidence is 1 case per 1 million population.

Tick-borne encephalitis - Treatment and prevention

Etiotropic treatment of tick-borne encephalitis is prescribed to all patients with tick-borne encephalitis, regardless of previous vaccination or prophylactic use of anti-encephalitis immunoglobulin.