Abdullah Sam 
Pneumococcal pneumonia is an acute bacterial infection of the lungs caused by pneumococcus and characterized clinically by an abrupt onset, with rigor, fever, chest pain, cough, and bloody sputum. History Of Pneumonia Although pneumonia was known to Hippocrates, its usual cause was not learned until late in the nineteenth century. Pneumococcus was first isolated from … Read more
Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. Its principal clinical lesions occur in the cooler tissues of the body: skin, superficial nerves, nose, pharynx, and larynx The distal portion of the eye and the testicles may also be damaged. Disfigurement and deformity owing to skin infiltration and peripheral nerve destruction in untreated patients … Read more
Tuberculous meningitis is the most serious form of tuberculous infection, invariably fatal when untreated, and responsible for a large portion of the tuberculosis deaths in infants.It was Colon regarded as primarily a disease of very young children, but at present half or more of the cases are observed in adults. It remains a dread disease … Read more
CHRONIC PULMONARY tuberculosis in adults is predominantly a disease of the pulmonary parenchyma. As mentioned, most if not all chronic pulmonary tuberculosis in the adult is due to the evolution of foci seeded during the preallergic bacteremic phase of the initial infection. This evolution may occur either fairly promptly or after long periods of quiescence … Read more
Brucellosis is an infectious disease caused by micro-organisms of the genus Brucella, transmitted to man from lower animals. The disease may be subclinical, subacute, acute, chronic, or relapsing, and infection may localize in various viscera and tissues, including the endocardium, bone marrow, biliary tract, liver, spleen, meninges, and eye. Etiology. Brucellae are small, gram-negative, aerobic, … Read more
Bartonellosis is an insect-borne bacterial disease limited to South America. It is characterized by two distinctive clinical stages. The first of these (Oroya fever) presents a severe febrile infection associated with a marked anemia, bone and joint pains, bacteremia, and an appreciable mortality. The second stage (verruga peruana) is more benign and is distinguished by … Read more
