YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL: LARGE SALIVARY CALCULUS: TAPEWORM

Identification of a Taenia Tapeworm Carrier — Los Angeles County, 2014

Carriers of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, are the sole source of cysticercosis, a parasitic tissue infection. When tapeworm eggs excreted by the carrier are ingested, tapeworm larvae can form cysts. When cysts form in the brain, the condition is called neurocysticercosis and can be especially severe. In Los Angeles County an average of 136 county residents are hospitalized with neurocystice...

Case of Salivary Calculus

A Case of Salivary Calculus

Raju, Hindu male aged 70, was admitted to hospital on the afternoon of the 19th April, 1922, suffering from extreme emaciation, inability to take food, and an offensive and purulent discharge from the mouth. The patient had suffered from this trouble for 12 years and had been in the habit of having the swelling punctured by a barber when it increased in size. Twelve days prior to his admission ...

Community-associated Clostridium difficile Infections, Monroe County, New York, USA

We conducted active sentinel surveillance in Monroe County, New York, USA, to compare incidence of community-associated Clostridium difficile infections (CA-CDIs) with that of health care-associated infections (HA-CDIs) and identify exposure and strain type differences between CA and HA cases. Patients positive for C. difficile toxin and with no documented health care exposure in the previous 1...

A Large Calculus