HIV infection: just an infectious disease?

Is cancer just an incurable infectious disease?

The word 'cancer' is of Latin derivation and means crab. By the turn of the 20th Century organized medicine had come to the conclusion that it was not a matter of whether infectious disease caused cancer, but which one. For over two hundred years a cancer germ had been discovered and rediscovered, named and renamed, each scientist adding to the knowledge, but to no avail. Then, in 1910, certain...

neonatal ebola infection: an interesting issue in pediatric infectious disease

An Infectious Disease Model for Estimating the Incidence of Hiv

We present a n infectious disease model with the following characteristics: • Eight disjoint risk groups that are based on transmission via sexual and intravenous drug use in homosexual men, bisexual men, heterosexual men and women. • Contacts that follow from a homogeneous mixing assumption which takes into account risk group sizes and behavior. • A disease incubation function based on the res...

is hodgkin’s disease an infectious disease?

the exact cause or causes of hodgkin's disease have not yet been determined. the etiology of the disease suggests, but has not verified, a possible immunological and/or viral relationship. the article reviews the literature on the epidemiology and etiology of hodgkin’s disease from 1955 to the present. the author presents several clinical phenomena that are commonly associated with hodgkin’s di...

Bone disease and HIV infection.

The high prevalence of bone demineralization among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients in the current therapeutic era has been described in multiple studies, sounding the alarm that we may expect an epidemic of fragility fractures in the future. However, despite noting high overall prevalences of osteopenia and osteoporosis, recent longitudinal studies that we review here have ...