Colitis ulcerosa infecciosa por Aeromonas spp

Chronic colitis after Aeromonas infection.

Three patients with an acute colitis in which the only pathogen detected was either Aeromonas hydrophila or A sobria progressed to a chronic phase after the infection had been eliminated by antibiotic treatment in two and had resolved spontaneously in the third. The final diagnosis in each case was ulcerative colitis. Two of the patients have responded to anti-inflammatory medication but one ha...

Aeromonas spp. and Infectious Diarrhea, Hong Kong

Bicout’s letter), Bicout shows that more time is required to detect a bioterror attack than when exponential infection growth is assumed (Figure accompanying Bicout’s letter). The number of persons infected over time under the logistic model will be fewer than the number of persons infected if exponential growth is assumed; therefore, screening blood donors to detect a bioterror attack is even ...

Behaviour of Aeromonas spp. after animal passage.

Colitis ulcerosa complicated by malignant lymphoma: case report and analysis of published works.

A 51 year old woman with a two year history of ulcerative colitis developed a wide spread gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of low grade malignancy (MALT-lymphoma) involving upper and lower gastrointestinal tract, spleen, and bone marrow. After chemotherapy, clinical symptoms improved and lymphocytic infiltrates disappeared. Thirty nine cases of ulcerative colitis and 22 cases of Crohn's ...

Ulcerative skin lesions in a child with colitis ulcerosa after colectomy.

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 17-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital with large skin defects around her ileostoma since 6 months. Several years before, she underwent a colectomy due to colitis ulcerosa and an ileostoma was created. A sharply demarcated, deep peristomal ulcer was observed ( fi gure 1 ). Despite intravenous antibiotics, the ulcer worsened and caused pain. Bloodcultures re...