Tag: CSF
Leptospirosis
- A zoonosis caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira, affecting many domestic and wild animals (especially rodents, mainly sewer rat).
- Human contamination is...
Streptococcus pneumoniae
HISTORY:
Isolated from saliva in 1880 by Pastor S. pneumoniae remains, despite its sensitivity to antibiotics, the first place among the causes of infectious disease...
Prophylaxis of meningococcal disease
Meningococcus is a bacterium responsible for about 30% of bacterial meningitis in France. Mortality of this infection is far from negligible despite the sensitivity...
Neisseria
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Neisseria are Gram-negative cocci, diplococci associates, sometimes tetrads and immobile. Strictly aerobic bacteria, only to respiratory metabolism (respiration of nitrate and / or...
Listeria
HISTORY:
Listeria monocytogenes, type species of the genus Listeria (named after the English surgeon Lord Lister) was described in 1926 by Murray; The bacterium was...
Other Neisseria
These are commensals of the upper airways of humans and animals that are sometimes responsible for chest infections and septicemia, often on land debilitated.
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Guillain-Barre disease
A- Introduction:
- This is a rapidly extensive polyradiculoneuropathy
- Infringement perivascular inflammatory autoimmune nerves. And multifocal segmental demyelination affecting roots; plexus; nerve trunks and vegetative...
