Showing posts with label Microbiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microbiology. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Mycetoma

Mycetoma: Mycetoma is a chronic subcutaneous infection caused by actinomycetes or fungi. This infection results in a granulomatous inflammatory response in the deep dermis and subcutaneous tissue.

A Ward in the Mycetoma
Mycetoma guidelines-2.pdf

Subcutaneous Mycoses
SubcutaneousMycoses.pdf

The characteristics of Aspergillus fumigatus mycetoma development: is this a biofilm?
Aspergillus fumigatus mycetoma.pdf

Subcutaneous Fungi Study Questions - KEY
SFungi.pdf

Eumycetoma: A Clinical Overview
Presenter: Michael Stephen Bolton
Eumycetoma.pdf

The Fifth International Conference on Mycetoma
5th-con/conference recommondations.pdf

Pulmonary Aspergillosis
Pulmonary Aspergillosis.pdf

Subcutaneous Fungi: Clinical Laboratory Science Program
Carol Larson MSEd, MT(ASCP)
Subcutaneous Fungi.pdf
View Ppts here

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Borrelia burgdorferi Lyme Disease lecture notes and 50 published articles

Borrelia burgdorferi is a spirochete which is the causative agent of Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne disease in the United States.




Borrelia burgdorferi
http://www.pugetsound.edu/documents/2007BDemander.pdf

Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete
http://bioinformatics.igm.jhmi.edu/salzberg/docs/BorreliaGenomePaperReprint.pdf

Evolution of Northeastern and Midwestern Borrelia burgdorferi
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/6/pdfs/09-0329.pdf

Contrasts in Tick Innate Immune Responses to Borrelia burgdorferi Challenge:
Immunotolerance in Ixodes scapularis Versus Immunocompetence in Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae)
http://sci.odu.edu/biology/directory/Hynes/26.pdf

TROSPA, an Ixodes scapularis Receptor for Borrelia burgdorferi
http://agnr.umd.edu/departments/vetmed/images/pdf2.pdf

Occurrence of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi among Small Mammal Populations in East Central Illinois
http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/research/mateus-pinilla/images/staff/lyme_jr_1.pdf

An intravascular immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi involves Kupffer cells and iNKT cells
by Woo-Yong Lee1, Tara J Moriarty, Connie H Y Wong, Hong Zhou, Robert M Strieter, Nico van Rooijen, George Chaconas & Paul Kubes
LeeNatureImmunology2010.pdf

Transfusion Related Transmission of Borrelia Burgdorferi
http://pathology.columbia.edu/education/residents/current/cp/TM/lyme.pdf

Lyme Disease
http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/lyme_disease.pdf

Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae or Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes cookei (Ixodidae) in Connecticut
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rswihart/pdf/91Microbio_spotfever.pdf

The Elastic Basis for the Shape of Borrelia burgdorferi
http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/wolgemuth/PDF/BorreliaMorphology.pdf

Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in Tick Feces Provides Evidence for Organism Shedding During Vector Feeding
http://stkctr.biol.sc.edu/Reprints/Reprints_4/Patton_2011.pdf

Sequence Variation in the Outer-Surface-Protein Genes of Borrelia burgdorferi
by Diane A. Caporale and Thomas D. Kocher
http://mbe.library.arizona.edu/data/1994/1101/6capo.pdf