All rickettsiosis for clinical manifestations, complications and treatment are identical to typhus, but there are special features: Tsutsungamushi is a disease with the same frequent man...

Scabies - a highly contagious( highly contagious) infectious-parasitic disease transmitted by a contact through a sick person or infected household items. Causes of scabies The causative ag...

Plague( "Black Death", Pestis) is a particularly dangerous, acute, natural focal zooanthroponous * bacterial infection, with multiple transmission routes, characterized by a feverish intoxication...

Pinworm( Enterobius vermicularis) is an almost transparent helminth of white color, 0.5-1 cm in size( "small threadlike worm"), with pointed end( hence the name "pinworm"), affects all parts of t...

The high incidence of enterovirus infections is recorded annually in Russia and other countries. The epidemiological situation of 2013 in Russia is still fresh in the memory of the population. Ac...

Adenovirus infection is an infectious disease belonging to the acute respiratory viral infection( ARVI) group, characterized by the damage of the lymphoid tissue and mucous membranes of the respi...

Alveococcosis has a high prevalence on the planet. The incidence of this helminthiasis in endemic areas reaches up to 8-10 cases per 100 thousand of the population. Attention is drawn to the seve...

Venereal lymphogranuloma( venous lymphogranulomatosis) is an infectious disease belonging to the venereal group, affecting mainly the skin and lymph nodes. In old textbooks it is also called the ...

Aspergillosis is a fungal disease caused by mold fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which affects a person and is manifested by the appearance of primary foci in the lung tissue, a variety of clinic...

All rickettsiosis for clinical manifestations, complications and treatment are identical to typhus, but there are specific features: Volyn fever( trench fever, paroxysmal rickettsiosis) ...

Pediculosis or lice. What it is? In translation into Russian this disease is called "lice" or infection with lice. Contrary to the widespread public opinion that lice are the lot of wartime and p...

Hemophilus infection( Hib infection) is a group of acute infectious diseases caused by Pfeiffer's wand( Figure on the left), with an aerogenic mechanism of infection that affects primarily the ch...

Phlegmon - acute purulent inflammation of fatty tissue, which has no clear boundaries. The fat tissue surrounding various organs, nerves and vessels, has a message with a number of located areas....

Worms or, scientifically, helminths - a large group of representatives of lower worms, capable of living in the human body, causing parasitic diseases - helminthiases. Helminths are divided into ...

Panaritium is a purulent inflammation of the soft tissues and bones of the finger. Depending on the location of the purulent focus and the depth of the inflammatory process, the skin, subcutaneou...

Toksokaroz is widely distributed in a number of countries, some of which are in Africa, Southeast Asia, Russia, the USA, England, Poland and others. This parasitosis, which is not typical for hum...

Leprosy is a disease caused by mycobacteria characterized by prolonged chronic course, damage to the nervous system, skin and mucous membranes, as well as the musculoskeletal system and internal ...

Mycosis is a group of diseases caused by a variety of fungi, affecting the skin, appendages of the skin and internal organs. In general, fungi can be present on healthy skin, but under certain co...