Published in BMC Neurology
BackgroundNocardiosis is a rare and life-threatening opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. Myasthenia gravis (MG) patients are potentially at risk of nocardia infection because of the use of immunosuppressive agents. To date, only 7 patients with MG have been reported to have nocardiosis. Disseminated nocardiosis with ocular involv...
Published in Arthritis Research & Therapy
ObjectiveTo estimate and compare the burdens of opportunistic infections and herpes zoster in real-world practice among patients with various systemic rheumatic diseases.MethodsThis 13-year cohort study used national health insurance data to compare the incidence rates (IRs) of nine opportunistic infections among patients with five rheumatic diseas...
Published in Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen
Visceral leishmaniasis is a worldwide distributed infectious zoonotic disease caused by protozoan pathogens of the genus Leishmania which are transmitted by sandflies. The main hosts are dogs. The prevalence in Germany is low. Predominantly affected are migrants and travelers returning from Mediterranean countries. The main clinical symptoms are fe...
Published in Current Urology
A 66-year-old male with a history of human immunodeficiency virus infection and metastatic bladder cancer presented to our hospital for a further workup of a focal seizure involving the patients left upper extremity. The patient was undergoing active chemotherapy at the time of admission and had a CD4 count of 111. Magnetic resonance imaging of the...
Published in Chinese Neurosurgical Journal
AbstractBackgroundPulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) poses a risk of opportunistic infections with a variety of organisms with Nocardia being the most common pathogen followed by mycobacteria and fungi.Case presentationA 7-year-old female child, presented with headache and multiple episodes of vomiting. There was no fever or altered sensorium. On...
Published in Current Rheumatology Reports
Purpose of ReviewTo summarize our most current understanding of the real world risk of infections associated with biologic and small molecule therapies in the setting of psoriatic disease.Recent FindingsPatients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis are at increased risk for infection from both their disease and some of their therapies. There is li...
Published in Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.)
Some patients diagnosed with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) actually suffer from combined immunodeficiency (CID) and therefore may require a different, CID-adapted treatment. Several CD4 T-cell-based criteria have been proposed in the past to identify patients with CID within the cohort of adult CVID patients. In this monocentric study, we...
Published in Iranian journal of public health
Opportunistic parasites have been identified as human pathogens, especially in immunodeficient patients. Microsporidian and coccidian infections cause chronic diarrhea as common clinical manifestation in HIV positive patients. In this study, the frequency of opportunistic infections, including microsporidian and coccidian infections, was evaluated ...
Published in IDCases
Rhodococcus equi is a gram positive bacterium most commonly presenting clinically as pneumonia, however can disseminate to cause disease in virtually any human tissue. Although it is predominantly an opportunistic pathogen, a number of case series have described infection occurring among individuals with a normal immune system. We describe two case...
Increased susceptibility of experimental animals with immune suppression to alveolar echinococcosis (AE), due to Echinococcus multilocularis infection, has been known for more than 30 years, as well as the fast progression of residual AE lesions in patients with liver transplantation. However, occurrence of AE in patients with acquired immune suppr...
