Genital wart virus infections: nuisance or potentially lethal?

Genital warts: just a nuisance?

Underdiagnosed and Potentially Lethal

CHEST I 103 I 6 I JUNE, 1993 1887 Pulmonary actinomycosis usually occurs as a result of the aspiration of oropharyngeal material in the setting of poor dental hygiene or oral trauma. When pathogenic, it is invasive, often mimicking a malignancy in presentation and macroscopic appearance. Endobronchial disease due to this pathogen rarely is reported. Ariel et al recently described five patients ...

Lethal experimental infections of rhesus monkeys by aerosolized Ebola virus.

The potential of aerogenic infection by Ebola virus was established by using a head-only exposure aerosol system. Virus-containing droplets of 0.8-1.2 microns were generated and administered into the respiratory tract of rhesus monkeys via inhalation. Inhalation of viral doses as low as 400 plaque-forming units of virus caused a rapidly fatal disease in 4-5 days. The illness was clinically iden...

Tampon sampling for diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis: a potentially useful way to detect genital infections?

Genital tract infections are important causes of ill health in developing countries, but diagnosis is difficult. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) was correctly diagnosed by using a vaginal specimen obtained by tampon sampling in 22 of 24 women (91.6%) for whom BV was diagnosed by Gram staining. The yield for other vaginal infections was higher (28% for Trichomonas vaginalis and 32.7% for Candida albica...

Genital HSV-1 infections.

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