mucormycosis is a fatal and life threatening infection particularly in immunocompromised patients, so early diagnosis and rapid treatment is life saving. a 52-year-old female, known case of diabetes mellitus, presented with chills, fever, fatigue and anorexia. a subcutaneous mass was detected around the umbilicus (4x4). fine needle aspiration of the mass showed mucor hyphea with little inflamma...

The ubiquity of contemporary terrorism defines the evilness of banality. A typical terrorist profile does not exist; it’s atypical character of this vile phenomenon that chills human rationality. This article briefly unravels the dynamics of terror and its implications. Un-separated terrorism and counter-terrorism destroy the climate for civil transformation. Our counterproductive interventions...

Dengue fever is a viral infection transmitted in urban areas by Aedes aegypti. After an incubation period of 2 to 7 days, dengue fever begins with abrupt onset of fever, chills and headache. A transient macular rash may also be observed which usually resolves spontaneously. Complications of dengue fever are common and usually related to renal and hepatic dysfunction1,2. Encephalopathy and encep...

Diagnosing UTIs is done through a combination of clinical history, examination, and laboratory tests. Infants and the elderly may present with no symptoms at all. Other patients might complain of fever, chills, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pain in the abdomen or back, dysuria, hematuria, incontinence, decreased urine output or the inability to urinate, and/or altered mental status/conf...

Liver abscess was diagnosed in a man presenting with fever, chills and severe myopathy. The K. pneumoniae isolated from blood cultures belonged to the K1 serotype. The patient responded favourably to percutaneous drainage of the abscess and antibiotics. This is the first documented report of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess syndrome (KLAS) described in Romania and may indicate the emergence ...

Metoprolol succinate is a widely used medication for the management of hypertension, heart failure, and angina. We report the case of a 36-year-old woman who developed erythema multiforme after administration of a low dose of this drug. She also presented with pruritic burning pain throughout her body accompanied by chills. While erythema multiforme has been reported with carvedilol, this is th...

Visceral leishmaniasis, in Greece, represents a relatively rare, potentially fatal clinical entity. Here we describe a case of visceral leishmaniasis infection in a 65-year old Greek male with psoriatic arthritis treated with methotrexate, who presented with high grade fever, chills, splenomegaly, pancytopenia and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinaemia. A diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis was fin...

The Florida Department of Health, Florida, United States, is investigating a Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak. Ten cases with disease onsets from 23 March to 13 April 2011, presented with gastrointestinal symptoms of diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, cramps, chills, and/or fever, after consuming raw or lightly cooked oysters harvested from Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Symptoms were milder than those durin...

Rituximab is a human/murine chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody used to treat CD20-positive B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Although most of the adverse effects associated with rituximab are usually reversible and temporary infusion-related reactions, including fever, chills, flushing and skin reactions, there are several reports of pulmonary events after long-term administration of rit...

Patients with genital herpes were treated three times weekly for 12 weeks with 3 X 10(6) IU of alpha 2b interferon (20 patients) or placebo (17 patients) administered by subcutaneous injection in a double-blind trial. Interferon had minimal effects on the suppression of recurrences and moderate toxicity (chills, fever, fatigue, and leukopenia), suggesting that this route and dosage of interfero...