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Infectious Diseases
A Global Perspective
IAP Slide Seminar Series
Infectious Diseases is made up of 13 cases to be presented as a slide seminar at the 25th International Congress of the IAP, Brisbane, 2004.
Convenors: Jan Kencian and Ann Marie Nelson
Series editor: Robin A. Cooke
CASE 1: The patient is a 30-year-old human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive male who presents with a three-month history of multiple crusted plaques and painful ulcers on the face.
Martin J. Hale
CASE 2: A 36-year-old male single Chinese fisherman was admitted with complaint of unwellness and weakness for four days. About four weeks previously an abscess in the right lower chest wall had been treated by a general practitioner with incision, drainage and antibiotic.
Norain Karim
CASE 3: A 21-year-old male from Cameroon presented with swelling across the middle of his face and involving the bridge of his nose.
Michel Huerre
CASE 4: A family purchased two prairie dogs from a pet trade show. Shortly after, the dogs became sick and died. All three family members developed sore throat, fever, malaise and multiple skin lesions.
Sherif R. Zaki
CASE 5: A 29-year-old presented inappropriate behavior, undue clumsiness, abnormal limb movements and forgetfulness, gradual physical and intellectual deterioration and generalized tonic-clonic seizures. There was a strong family history of similar symptoms.
Catriona McLean
CASE 6: A 49-year-old male racehorse trainer presented with an influenza-like illness six days after the death of a mare in his stables. A chest x-ray showed diffuse alveolar shadowing. He rapidly deteriorated and died seven days after admission.
Anthony J. Ansford
CASE 7: A 35-year-old male presented with a 12-day history of sore throat, headache, drowsiness, vomiting and neck stiffness after assisting at an autopsy on a racehorse. He recovered from this, but 12 months later he had a recurrence of symptoms, became comatosed and died.
Ian Brown
CASE 8: Fifteen racehorses died after a short febrile illness. Autopsies were performed on them.
Roger Kelly
CASE 9: A 37-year-old woman presented developed fever, vomiting, anorexia, and drooling of saliva due to difficulty swallowing. She became comatosed and died. She had been caring for a sick fruit bat.
Thomas Robertson
CASE 10: A 54-year-old male presented with many erythematous asymptomatic plaques all over the body. There was no anaesthesia but some lesions had an inverted saucer shaped appearance.
Raju Harilal
CASE 11: A 32-year-old male presented with asymptomatic shiny papules and nodules all over the body of two months duration. There was numbness of both hands and feet.
Raju Harilal
CASE 12: Examples of hospital-acquired pneumonia.
Yutaka Tsutsumi
CASE 13: A 62-year-old male presented with a clinical diagnosis of polymyositis.
Thomas Robertson
Authors: Jan Kencian & Ann Marie Nelson
Media: Book, CD
Product code: SA20
ISBN: 1920696547