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    Sinus Infections

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    Sinus infections caused by infection of pathogenic microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, or fungi), which grow inside the sinuses and cause intermittent obstruction of slot Pocket. Most people do not convey sinus infections. Most doctors agree that except in rare cases, sinus infections are not contagious but arising mainly viruses and bacteria that, by chance, someone pockets support deployment because Minor, rarely, and distortions in the sinus tissue of a person (for example, swelling,…

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    MCTD may be diagnosed upon a clinical evaluation of overlap disorders, a detailed patient history, identification of characteristic findings, and specialized tests in blood that reveal high levels of antibodies to the U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (anti-RNP) and high amounts of the antibodies ANA. Those who have mixed connective tissue disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic sclerosis disease lack the antibodies dsDNA and Scl70, respectively. The treatment of MCTD is…

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    Artaud's Illness

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    Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud was born on September 4, 1896 in Marseilles, France. He was one of three survivors out of nine children born to a Levantine Greek mother and a wealthy ship fitter father. His parents were first cousins. Such a successive mortality rate may have been in part due to congenital problems that played a major role in his illnesses. Artaud spent time in the Army and was discharged due to “self- induced habit of sleepwalking. His most productive works come only after a…

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    Neonatal sepsis is defined as clinical syndrome in an infant 28 days of life or younger,manifested by systemic signs of infection and isolation of a bacterial pathogen from the bloodstream (Edwards ms and baker cj 2004). Diagnosis and management of sepsis are agreat challenge facing neonatologists in nicus.clinical diagnosi of presentation is difficult due to non specific signs and symptoms . In addition,laboratory diagnosis is time consuming.this matter necessitates the initiation of empirical…

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    his provocative themes that are characteristic of the artist methodology (Reimschneider & Grosenick: 2000: 458). This series is a collection of cibachrome photographs taken of corpses from infant to old age who have died with varying causes, from meningitis to abuse and plane crash. The photographs are…

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    usually due to bacterial infections and the specific responses are associated with tuberculosis meningitis, meningoencephalitis, and pachymeningitis. These usually affect the deeper structures of the original bone substance, especially when they are the result of tuberculosis meningitis. The inflammatory reactions are exhibited by a relatively fresh process. In both non-specific and specific meningitis, changes are expressed by smooth and flat plate-like newly built bone formations that are…

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    children in the United States (Vaccinate for Your Children)."It is the policy of the Board of Regents of the State of Kansas that incoming students residing in student housing at a Regents ' institution be vaccinated for meningitis or sign a waiver refusing receipt of the meningitis vaccine (Vaccines.gov).” Kansas State University is a Regents institution and must follow this policy. This quote shows that most…

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    Before, children with bacterial meningitis only had a 10% chance of survival; similarly, strep throat, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and whooping cough were all very serious diseases and had a high mortality rate. Now. if a soldier in war gets an infection, doctors don’t have to save cut off…

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    chills and shortness of breath. Bacteremia can also cause abdominal pain with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. It can also cause the individual to have an altered mental status that causes confusion. When these bacteria reach the meninges it causes meningitis, which affects the covering of the brain and the spinal accord. This can cause seizures and swelling of the tissues around the brain. Signs and symptoms are similar to the previously mentioned infections such as fever, nausea and…

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    Escherichia coli is a gram negative bacteria with pathogenic potential to both humans and animals causing three general clinical syndromes: (1) enteric/diarrhoeal disease, (2) urinary tract infections (UTIs) and (3) sepsis/meningitis (Kaper et al., 2004). However, this bacteria uses different virulence factors to cause the above-mentioned clinical syndromes (Croxen and Finlay, 2010; Kaper et al., 2004). The E. coli producing pore forming toxin α-hemolysin causing bacteraemia/sepsis causes…

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