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J T Morris

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PubMed1992

Bubonic plague.

A 19-year-old man, recently returned from a 10-day military exercise in central California, had acute onset of shaking chills, headache, and bilateral inguinal adenopathy after having been bitten by insects on his lower extremities. He had exquisitely tender inguinal and femoral nodes bilaterally. Needle aspirate from an inguinal node grew Yersinia pestis. The patient was treated with streptomycin and chloramphenicol and did well.

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PubMed1992

Bacteremia due to Pasteurella multocida.

Pasteurella multocida should be considered as a possible etiologic agent in any infection that is the result of an animal bite or scratch. Because of its opportunistic capability, it should be included among the possible pathogens in bacteremia, particularly in any patient with immunosuppression or liver cirrhosis, especially if there is a history of animal exposure.

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PubMed1992

Recurrence of neisserial meningococcemia due to deficiency of terminal complement component.

Recurrent infections with Neisseria meningitidis are attributed to deficiencies of terminal complement components. The serotype most commonly responsible for recurrent N meningitidis infections is serotype Y. We have reported a case of recurrent meningitis due to N meningitidis in a patient who was found to be deficient in the sixth component of complement. Complement deficiencies should be considered in any patient with recurrent infections caused by N meningitidis.

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PubMed1992

Disseminated infection due to Mycobacterium chelonei.

We have presented a case of M chelonei subsp abscessus in an immunocompromised patient. The patient was given antimicrobial therapy, to which the organism appeared sensitive for 4 weeks, but he died because of other medical problems. Repeated negative blood cultures for mycobacteria after the initiation of therapy and a careful postmortem examination suggested that the antimicrobial therapy was effective.

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PubMed1992

Pulmonary tuberculosis in diabetics.

Pulmonary tuberculosis is found predominantly in the lung apices. In diabetics it has been suggested that tuberculosis tended to occur predominantly in the lower lobes. A retrospective chart review was performed of all patients with a diagnosis of diabetes and pulmonary tuberculosis admitted to a health care facility to determine the presenting chest roentgenographic location of tuberculosis. Multiple lobe involvement was the predominant chest roentgenographic finding in both diabetics and nondiabetics with pulmonary tuberculosis. Since tuberculosis and diabetes frequently coexist in the population at risk for tuberculosis, clinicians should suspect tuberculosis in the diabetic with an abnormality on chest roentgenogram. Aggressive diagnostic measures and specific chemotherapy should be given and monitored to treat pulmonary tuberculosis.

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PubMed1992

Homeless individuals and drug-resistant tuberculosis in south Texas.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis was found in 21 percent of homeless individuals in New York City between 1982 and 1987. To see if this relationship existed in south Texas, we evaluated all admissions to a Texas Health Department facility with culture-proven tuberculosis. Four hundred forty-three patients were admitted between September 1987 and October 1990. Twenty-six, (5.9 percent) of these patients were identified as homeless. Alcoholism, tobacco abuse, divorce, and unemployment were common demographic characteristics. Six male patients and one female patient (27 percent) had Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to one or more antituberculosis drugs. Five were Hispanic, one was white, and one was black. The six male patients had resistance to only one drug, either rifampin or ethambutol. The female patient had resistance to streptomycin, isoniazid, and rifampin. These findings illustrate that drug-resistant tuberculosis exists among homeless individuals in south Texas. As the number of homeless people increases, physicians need to recognize that pulmonary tuberculosis is a frequent infection in this population and that the causal mycobacteria may well be resistant to one or more antituberculosis agents.

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PubMed1992

Alabama quartet.

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Follow-up study of Milwaukee brace treatment in patients with idiopathic scoliosis.

Milwaukee brace treatment for patients with idiopathic scoliosis very rarely accomplishes improvement approaching that of successful surgery. Prpgression of small and medium-sized curves (60 degrees or less) has been routinely halted. Few curves progress with adequate brace treatment. Occasionally, improvement in deformity and curve measurement is significant, but loss of improvement seems to be gradual and almost uniformly present to some degree after cessation of treatment. A much longer follow-up period will be necessary if the improvement seen with Milwaukee brace treatment can be considered "permanent." Milwaukee brace treatment is effective in skeletally immature patients with small, flexible and nondeforming curves. Corrective surgery is recommended for deforming curves in all patients for whom permanent improvement is the goal.

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