At birth, three infants had typical to-and-fro murmurs and laboratory features suggesting tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve. Initial posteroanterior chest x-ray films were atypical for the condition because of the apparent absence of dilation of the proximal pulmonary arterial tree. Lateral chest x-ray films invariably demonstrated a large hilar mass. Radiographic findings on the ...

conclusions this is the first case report of a vanishing tumor in the right pulmonary apex. case presentation such masses have been designated as vanishing tumors of the lung. it is extremely rare that a vanishing tumor occurs in the apex of the lung. introduction in patients with acute heart failure, pleural fluid localized in an inter-pleural fissure produces a mass on chest x-ray, which mimi...

J. Arya , Y-W. Chen , K. Dewitt , Y-W. Chiang , M. R. Prausnitz 1 1 Georgia Institute of Technology, 2 Merial Ltd. Purpose To stabilize rabies DNA vaccine in a dissolving microneedle patch and evaluate immunogenicity and dose sparing in dogs. Rabies is mainly a disease of animals, whereas humans get rabies primarily when they are bitten by dogs. Vaccinating domestic dogs and other animals has r...

BACKGROUND Epidemics of meningococcal disease in Africa are commonly detected too late to prevent many cases. We assessed weekly meningitis incidence as a tool to detect epidemics in time to implement mass vaccination. METHODS Meningitis incidence for 41 subdistricts in Mali was determined from cases recorded in health centres (1989-98) and from surveillance data (1996-98). For incidence thre...

Burkina Faso conducted mass measles vaccination campaigns among children aged 9 months to 4 years during December 1998 and December 1999. The 1998 campaign was limited to six cities and towns, while the 1999 campaign was nationwide. The last year of explosive measles activity in Burkina Faso was 1996. Measles surveillance data suggest that the 1998 urban campaigns did not significantly impact m...

A 40-year-old man presented recurrent cough and bloody sputum for 4 months. Chest X-ray showed a large mass in the right upper lobe. Histopathologic examination of tissue from percutaneous biopsy of the lesion revealed actinomycotic granules and branching filamentous bacteria, and therefore pulmonary actinomycosis was diagnosed. These findings suggest that pulmonary actinomycosis should be incl...

The corrected text should be: “Under those assumptions, in the Netherlands mass vaccination with NYCBH would lead to 9.8 deaths (95% CI [0, 30]), mass vaccination with Lister to 55.1 deaths (95% CI [7, 182]), and mass vaccination with Bern would lead to 303.5 deaths (95% CI [19, 1093]). In Germany mass vaccination with NYCBH would lead to 46.2 deaths (95% CI [6, 142]), mass vaccination with Lis...

Molecular analysis of measles viruses in the Philippines was conducted from 2000 to 2008. No confirmed measles cases were detected in the surveillance in 2005 after the mass vaccination campaign in 2004. However, a re-emergence of measles cases occurred in 2007, which was caused by other genotypes and the previous circulating genotype had disappeared.

We report a case of a 44-year old female who presented to her physician complaining of mild dyspnea. A follow-up chest X-ray and chest computed tomography scan revealed a giant bilateral intrathoracic mass, filling the right thoracic cavity and extending across the anterior mediastinum into the left chest cavity. This large mass caused a marked shift in the midline structures, displacing the he...