Infectious disease consultant and retired professor: the experience of a consultant with the passion of a professor.
Jul 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A 32-YO HIV+ patient, from a rural area of Colombia, severely immunosuppressed (<50 CD4 cells/mm3): ulcers in lower limbs, was found with a larvae coming out from one ulcer (Figure). 1/5
W Villamil et al. Rev Panam Enf Inf 2018; 1(1):40-41.
#parasitology #microbiology
The larva was identified, as possible Tenebrio molitor.
CANTHARIASIS: ULCE INFESTACIÓN DUE TENEBRIO MOLITORIN IN AN AIDS PATIENT
Patient was treated with trimethoprim with a successful evolution 2/5
#healthcare #primarycare
Jun 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
23 años ♀️, LES en tratamiento inmunosupresor: pápulas asintomáticas de un año de evolución en el párpado izquierdo, con aumento progresivo en número y tamaño. 1/5
6 años♂️: dolor y alopecia en placas en cuero cabelludo de 3 meses de evolución; en las últimas 48 horas, fiebre y cefalea, adenopatías cervicales < 2 cm. 1/4
A 44-yo♂️, HIV +, CD4 cell count of 86/mL, viral load of 35,900 copies/mL: a 1-month history of fevers and pruritic blackish-brown lamellated plaques on the limbs and scalp.
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DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm2213894 #IDtwitter#dermatology
A RPR titer of 1:32.
A Treponema pallidum particle agglutination: ➕.
A skin-biopsy of the left forearm 🔬: diffuse dermal lymphocytes and histiocytes admixed with a plasma-cell infiltrate.
Lactante, un mes de vida: fiebre, placa en la cara ligeramente sobreelevada, eritematosa, con coloración anaranjada periférica, delimitada, y con aumento de temperatura a la palpación 1/7
A 31-YO♂️, #sexually active with 2♂️partners in the previous month: 8 days before redness of the R eye, an itchy perianal rash & rectal pain; scattered, tender, shallow ulcers & pustules on chest (A), abdomen (B), back (C) & perianal (D) 1/9
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PCR from the perianal vesicel:➕for nonvariola orthopoxvirus DNA.
Species-specific PCR: ➕for #mpox virus, clade II.
The patient reported a new rash with numerous ulcer on his chest, abdomen, and back
3 años♂️, dermatitis atópica: fiebre, aftas en el dorso lingual, pápulas, vesículas y lesiones costrosas cutáneas de 12 horas en miembros inferiores. 1/4
🖊️@berzosa_lopeza, C. Muñoz, y @roipipe @Hosp_Villalba
#pediatría #dermatología #AtencionPrimaria https://t.co/KAV247UPx2pap.es/articulo/13403…
@roipipe @Hosp_Villalba ECCEMA HERPETICUM
A las 48 horas de inicio del tratamiento con aciclovir las lesiones se habían extendido más allá de las zonas de flexión de extremidades, pero habían mejorado, estando todas en fase costrosa, sin aparición de nuevas vesículas. 2/4
#infecciosas #microbiología
Apr 11, 2023 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
An 85-YO in rural Mississippi: months of tender, erythematous plaques & edema on bilateral hands extending to the elbows & on feet extending below the knees with significant pain
#IDtwitter#dermatology
A repeat skin extensive granulomatous inflammation (A), with Ziehl-Neelsen stain clusters of acid-fast bacilli throughout the dermis (B).
Kinyoun stain >9 AFB/high-power field (C & D).
2/19
A 44-YO♂️, stayed in a rural cottage of France 2 weeks previously: cramping upper abdominal pain with watery diarrhea.
He had passed what he thought were worms in his feces
Eosinophilia 1/6
doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci… #GITwitter#IDtwitter#microbiology
The specimens: identified as the larvae of the drone fly, Eristalis tenax
These larvae are 2.5–3 cm in length; the posterior tube gives them the name of “rat-tailed maggots”
INTESTINAL MYASIS CAUSED BY ERISTALIS TENAX LARVA 2/6
3 años ♀️, padre con lesiones cutáneas similares: lesiones cutáneas polimorfas localizadas en los glúteos, con elementos papulares, vesiculares y pustulosos umbilicados
1/13
2 meses ♂️, madre VIH+, toxicómana, y chancro perineal indoloro en 2º trimestre del embarazo:
Un mes de rinorrea serosanguinolenta, lesiones dérmicas, FC 180lpm, FR 50rpm, Tª 38,8°C, crepitantes finos en tórax, hepatoesplenomegalia, 1/5
#dermatología#pediatria#infecciosas
🧪CMIA anti-Treponema pallidum :➕
⬇️: glucosa, hemoglobina, plaquetas, albúmina
⬆️:transaminas, bilirrubinemia directa
RX: periostitis en huesos largos
PL: hipoglucorraquia, hiperproteinorraquia, sin pleocitosis y VDRL➕
VDRL materno:➕ 2/5
A 26-YO♂️ no #sexual contacts other than with his male partner: 6-day of fever, malaise, a swollen parotid gland, & ulcerative lesion on the ipsilateral lower lip.
Emergence of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) #Shigella flexneri serotype 2a associated with #sexual transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM), in #England: a descriptive epidemiological study 1/6 👇 thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
In this study, authors report the emergence and sustained transmission of #XDR and #MDR strains of S flexneri among among MSM, harbouring plasmid-encoded blaCTX-M-27, in England since September, 2021.
There were clinically severe cases, including hospitalisations.
2/6
Feb 20, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
A 71-YO therapy for multiple mieloma, voriconazole for Aspergillus fumigatus sinusitis, prophylaxis with TMP-SMX: febrile neutropenia, nodular lesion on abdominal wall
CT: pulmonary nodule unchanged in last a month
🔬biopsy of pulmonary nodule? 1/8
#Pathologists#haematology
🔬: Histiocytic process with granular basophilic cytoplasm and Michaelis-Gutmann bodies (arrows), positive for calcium with von Kossa special stain (arrowhead); findings pathognomonic for malakoplakia.
A 50-YO ♀️ bitten by her pet rat: fever, myalgia, sore throat, headaches a nonpruritic rash on extremities including palms & soles, arthralgias, knees arthritis.
A punctate wound with central necrosis on L palm, & her R thumb. 1/9
A 17-YO♀️, unprotected #sexual intercourse with multiple male partners: a 1-month history of pruritic genital lesions, multiple smooth, grayish-white papules & plaques were noted on the vulva & upper inner thighs. 1/5
A 29-YO♂️, 6 months before, HIV + & non–drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis, antiretroviral & 4-drug antituberculous therapy initiated but soon reduced to rifampin & isoniazid only: abdominal pain on the L side
CT: ? 1/5