In Kenya and Kazakhstan, integration of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing results into the routine surveillance of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) proved feasible and useful. The integration process improved overall data quality and data validation capacity, and integrated data are a useful addition to routine cohort and treatment outcome data. Besides their importance for i...

Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is a severe disease seen in critically ill patients, including those with autoimmune diseases. We herein report the case of a 41-year-old female who developed macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) accompanied by a recurrence of Kikuchi disease. Abdominal imaging revealed marked thickening of the gallbladder wall and pericholecystic fluid, typically found in A...

In March 2007, when Georgia Tech professors Richard Fujimoto, Jeffrey Skolnick and Eberhard Voit invited colleagues conducting systems biology research to present at a poster session, they expected a few dozen researchers. To their surprise, more than 100 posters were presented that day. “Systems biology is a relatively new field that focuses on complex networks of biological interactions. When...

AIM To detect the immunohistopathology of necrotising scleritis. METHODS Immunohistochemical staining was performed on two groups of enucleated eyes with necrotising scleritis (systemic autoimmune disease and idiopathic scleritis). Deparaffinised sections were stained with CD3, CD20, CD68, CD8, CD4 and dendritic reticulum cells (DRC). RESULTS Within the autoimmune group, about 43% of inflam...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The present study was aimed at assessing the characteristics of children with nosocomial multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii complex (MDR ABC) in a tertiary hospital of eastern China. MDR ABC poses a serious threat to public health. However, information on nosocomial MDR ABC in children is lacking. METHOD This study retrospectively reviewed the cases in a tertiary h...

Cervical lymphadenopathy can be developed from various causes such as viral infection, bacterial infection, Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, tuberculosis, malignancy, and reactive changes. In patients who have malignancy, metastatic lymphadenopathy is possible but it is rare that other concomitant diseases are in the same lymph node. We experienced a case of coexistence of Kikuchi necrotizing lymphade...

# Takanobu Tabata , Nobuyoshi Kikuma , Tomohisa Wada 3, 5 Satoshi Hori , Mitoshi Fujimoto , Hirokazu Asato 5 1 15 Hirokuden, Ukigai, Miyoshi-cho, Nishikamo-gun, Aichi, 470-0207 Japan, Kojima Press Industry Co.,Ltd., [email protected] 2 Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 466-8555 Japan, Nagoya Institute of Technology 3 1 Senbaru Nishihara Okinawa, 903-0213 Japan, University of the Ryuk...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria causing infections in patients at the intensive care units (ICUs) of Riyadh Military Hospital (RMH), as well as their antimicrobial resistance patterns for one year. METHODS A retrospective, cohort investigation was performed. Laboratory records from January to December 2009 were studied for the prevalence of MDR Gram-n...

Tuberculous lymphadenitis continues to be one of the most common causes of lymphadenitis. FNAC avoids the physical and psychological trauma occasionally encountered after biopsy, general anaesthesia, a surgical operation and hospitalisation. We wanted to study the utility and limitations of FNAC in tuberculous lymphadenitis. Total 1272 FNAC cases with enlarged superficial lymphnodes were includ...

To aid in the initial diagnosis of Kikuchi lymphadenitis and to assess whether the composition of the T cells might shed light on the pathogenesis, we used nested polymerase chain reaction tests followed by high-resolution gel electrophoresis to determine the pattern of T-cell antigen receptor rearrangement in 56 consecutive cases. Except for 1 unusual case with recurrent lymphadenopathy, none ...