Several factors may enhance detection of pasteurized milk-associated outbreaks: a very focal illness event, illness caused by an unusual strain, a method for subtyping surveillance strains, heavy contamination of the product, and a local brand of milk.
Because dengue is a focal illness that travels in "waves" outward from urban environments (11, 28 ), the timing and distance required to be independent from a site of known or suspected DENV transmission are unclear.
During a routine training-camp physical last October, doctors discovered he had focal glomerulosclerosis, an illness that causes scarring of the kidney and could eventually require dialysis or a transplant.
Considering that Dr. Gerald Appel, Mourning's doctor, has said that anti-inflammatory drugs did not cause Mourning's illness, focal segmental sclerosis -- although they could have exacerbated the condition -- Sica said the players could use a unified source of education.
We designed a ten-week elective course for OHSU medical students using diabetes as a prototype illness and focal point for our experiential, patient-centered learning model.
More often than not, clinicians have to rely on surrogate markers to diagnose encephalitis (e.g., CSF pleocytosis, febrile illness, and focal neurologic signs in the right clinical context).
The cadre of District Malaria and integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI) focal person (Fp) and DRHCo are ones being co-opted (i.e. not-permanent members) to CHMT.
A biopsy revealed an immune-system disease called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis -- the illness that would later befall the basketball player Alonzo Mourning.
A clearer understanding of how sensorimotor, perceptual and environmental cues complement, or compete with, each other in engendering SoA may prove valuable in deepening our understanding the agency disruptions that characterise certain focal neurological disorders and mental illnesses.
Focal or multifocal retinitis post febrile illness is known to be caused by chikungunya, dengue, West Nile virus (WNV), bartonellosis, Lyme's disease, rift valley fever, etc. Rickettsial retinitis also contributes significant portion of this condition.
At ICU discharge, 24 patients had at least one residual neurological abnormality: mental status abnormalities (n = 12), persistent focal deficits (n = 8), critical-illness polyneuropathy (n = 6), epilepsy (n = 2), and other abnormalities (n = 7).
