Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia Possibly due to Infection with Ascaris Lumbricoides Tropical Eosinophilic Syndrome Mushroom Poisoning in Rhodesia Pseudohypertrophic Muscular Dystrophy in Two Members of an African Family African Housing in Southern Rhodesia

Eosinophilic Cellulitis: Report of a case and literature review

Eosinophilic cellulitis is a rare skin disorder may be idiopathic or be associated with other conditions. We present a 42- year- old female patient with bilateral atypical cellulitis – like lesions on her arms. The patient had a documented infection with Leptospira recently, and had a positive history for fascioliasis two years before.Histopathology examination of the l...

An outbreak of ascariasis with marked eosinophilia in the southern part of Kyushu District, Japan, caused by infection with swine ascaris.

Ascariasis has been a representative soil-transmitted intestinal parasitic disease in warm climates. In Japan, this disease was a major and serious public health problem only a few decades ago. However, the incidence of the disease nowadays is reportedly less than 0.01%. Recently in 1994 through 1995, we experienced a total of 14 cases who were suspected as having ascariasis. They were characte...

Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia in an 11-Year-Old Boy

Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia is a rare and serious disease mostly encountered in female asthmatic patients in their fifth decade of life and rarely in children.  Herein, we describe an 11-year-old boy presenting with clubbing of fingers and post-exertional cough without asthma and peripheral eosinophilia.  He had had a restrictive pattern in his pulmonary function test that showed ...

Mission boys, civilized men, and marriage: educated African men in the Missions of Southern Rhodesia, 1920-1945.

Detection of the Duplication in Exons 56-63 of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients with MLPA

Background Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a deadly X-linked recessive disorder. This genetic disorder affects 1 among 3,500-5,000 males in the world. The majority of the patients are male, due to the type of inheritance. It affects most of the skeletal, the respiratory, and cardiac muscles, causing these vital organs to contract and eventually mortality.<br...