Oral Manifestation of Sexual Transmitted Diseases

Promiscuity and the Evolution of Sexual Transmitted Diseases

We study the relation between different social behaviors and the onset of epidemics in a model for the dynamics of sexual transmitted diseases. The model considers the society as a system of individual sexuated agents that can be organized in couples and interact with each other. The different social behaviors are incorporated assigning what we call a promiscuity value to each individual agent....

Oral manifestation of primary and acquired immunodeficiency diseases in children.

Immunodeficiency diseases in children can have significant oral manifestations. Oral changes appear to depend on the nature of the host defect. Children with IgA deficiency and hypogammaglobulinemia do not demonstrate severe oral pathology or abnormalities in craniofacial development. Phagocytic ell defects are associated with mucosal esions or rapidly progressive forms of periodontal disease. ...

Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual behavior: insights from mathematical models.

The major role of mathematical models of transmission dynamics and population biology of sexually transmitted diseases is helping understand the influence of the many biologic, social, and behavioral factors that influence the incidence or prevalence of infection. Various models can examine heterogeneity in sexual behavior and determine how individual variation influences epidemiologic pattern ...

Oral diseases

Clinical manifestation of mitochondrial diseases.

Mitochondrial disorders (MD) represent a clinically, biochemically and genetically heterogeneous group of diseases associated with dysfunction of the oxidative phosphorylation system and pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Our aim was to illustrate the most common clinical presentation of MD on the example of selected diseases and syndromes. The minimal prevalence of MD is estimated as 1 to 5,000. ...