Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Guillain–Barré syndrome Guillain-Barre, pronounced: gee-YAH-buh-RAY, syndrome is a rare disorder in which your body's immune system attacks your peripheral nerves instead of invading organisms. I chose this topic because my father suffered for over 7 years with this debilitating disease. I have only known one person to have it, him. I have heard of it because it is one of the questions on the Influenza administration questionnaire form. I feel it is a unique and often misdiagnosed disease.…

Immune Mediated Development of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy that presents with ascending motor weakness, sensory abnormalities, and loss of reflexes. Guillain-Barré syndrome can be divided into 4 major clinically distinct forms: acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), the Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS), acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), and acute sensorimotor axonal neuropathy (AMSAN). There are a…

Deep vein Thrombosis is the third most common cardiovascular disease after acute coronary syndromes and strokes, affecting 2 million individuals in the US each year. (Theodorou, Theodorou, & Kakitsubata, 2003) Although more commonly limited to the veins of the calf, lower extremity deep vein thrombosis is a very serious medical condition that can result in death or disability. DVT is a condition that happens when blood clots are present and forms in a deep vein, usually in the leg. It is…

Aminata muscaria is a very toxic plant to dogs and cats. If ingested, dogs can result in acute gastrointestinal distress that precedes a potentially life-threatening central neurologic syndrome characterized by seizures, tremors, and somnolence (Rossmeisl, Jr.,Blodgett, Jones, Higgins, Ellis, 2006). In a case study three dogs were presented with the toxic mushroom Amanita muscaria that developed respiratory arrest. Of the three dogs, one was euthanized and the remaining two recovered fully with…

Clinical signs and symptoms C.neoformans causes crytococcosis. This can be asymptomatic, chronic, or acute (1); depending on the individual infected. The signs and symptoms are usually broad and can manifest as coughing, chest pain, fever, shorthness of breath, weight loss, and malaise (1,2). In immune-compromised patients, cases can present as pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (2) or in more severe cases as meningitis or meningoencephalitis. The symptoms of the latter include…

discovered in the province of Yunnan in China during 1334. “…the bacterium Yersinia pestis began its long march westward…” (Source 1, lines 9-10). SARS, on the other hand, was simply a part of the common cold family. Also recognized as severe acute respiratory syndrome, it caused lots of havoc…

immune diseases. Glomerulonephritis due to infection includes post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, bacterial endocarditis and viral infection. Other reasons are from immune diseases such as lupus erythematosus, IgA nephropathy and Good pasture’s syndrome. The two most common causes are post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis and lupus. “Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis occurs as an immune reaction to a Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection of the throat or skin. This occur most…

It also causes recurrent blockages to the blood vessels that are detrimental to vital organs of the body including the heart, kidney and brains (Metcalfe, Barrow-Stewart and Campbell 2007). Observable symptoms include severe pain, neurological, respiratory and renal problems and acute anaemia (Howard and Davies…

mucus membranes. As with most influenza viruses symptoms range from fever, malaise, cough, sore throat to serious complications like severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, multi-organ failure, and death. There are no vaccines for…

could be found. Ebola tends to just go away for years at a time, which is what makes it a difficult virus to track. On down the road, there would become five species of ebolavirus: Zaire virus, Sudan virus, Reston virus, Taï Forest virus, and Bundibugyo virus. Bundibugyo virus emerged in 2007 and a reservoir host still has not been found. Gorillas have been found to have antibodies, but hat doesn’t mean they are the reservoirs. Malaria was first believed to no be zoonotic because “the four…