A case of alopecia areata followed by relapsing polychondritis is presented. Similar cases from the literature are reviewed and speculation about the relationship of these diseases is offered. Although the occurrence of these diseases together could be coincidental, an association seems immunologically plausible. Thus, relapsing polychondritis might be an unusual systemic manifestation of alope...

Based on chromosome sequences, the human pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi phylogenetically clusters with species that cause relapsing fever. But atypically for relapsing fever agents, B. miyamotoi is transmitted not by soft ticks but by hard ticks, which also are vectors of Lyme disease Borrelia species. To further assess the relationships of B. miyamotoi to species that cause relapsing fever, I inv...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Our aim was to evaluate the hypothesis that water diffusion alterations are present in normal-appearing white matter of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and to assess their change with time. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-four subjects with clinically diagnosed RRMS, with disease duration of less than 12 months and an expanded disability status s...

Relapsing fever is a group of conditions that is characterized by recurrent febrile episodes interspaced with periods of no symptoms at all. They are arthropod-borne spirochetal infections of the Borrellia genus and occur in two main forms: tick-borne and louse-borne. Tick-borne relapsing fever is a zoonosis that is found worldwide. The louse-borne relapsing fever is caused by B. recurrentis, a...

BACKGROUND The condition of non-specific back pain is characterized by high prevalence, non satisfactory therapeutic options and severe socioeconomic consequences. Therefore prevention seems an attractive option to downsize the problem. However, the construction of effective preventive measures is complicated by the obscure aetiology of the condition, the multidimensionality of risk and prognos...

come "under the observation of the medical officers; then in July the disease broke out with crreat virulence in the schools of the C M S. situated with several industrial workshops and missionaries houses, etc., alongside of the Christian village of Sharanpur, over a mile from the city. The settlement attacked consists of numerous small buildings, boarding schools for boys and girls, normal sc...

Having studied the cases when two typhoid infections,-cough and relapsing typhoid,-simultaneously affect one same patient, or incubation period of occurs during course other, Elistratov came to following conclusions.

A 49-year-old healthy female presented to the emergency department with a headache, fever to 103°F, mild myalgia, heart rate of 119 bpm, and blood pressure of 80/40 mm Hg. Past medical history was unremarkable, no drug allergies or current medications, except for a recent vacation in eastern Washington state. The complete blood count showed a white blood cell count of 12.5 3 10E9/L (mild leukoc...

Sir,?Towards the latter part of an epidemic of widespread relapsing fever on the Nilgiris I had occasion to meet with a number of cases of dysentery occurring in relapsing fever patients. Such cases were not met with in the early days of the epidemic. A day or two previous to the fall of temperature of the first pyrexial period, more often at the beginning of the apyrexial period, dysentery sta...