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The icteric form is also known as Weil's disease. [29] It has been shown in studies that L. interrogans may damage the endothelial cell lining of various vessels and organs, allowing them to leak and further spread the bacteria to other parts of the body. [30] Symptoms can appear anywhere between 2 and 4 weeks after exposure.
Signs and symptoms can range from none to mild (headaches, muscle pains, and fevers) to severe (bleeding in the lungs or meningitis). [5] Weil's disease (/ ˈ v aɪ l z / VILES), [12] the acute, severe form of leptospirosis, causes the infected individual to become jaundiced (skin and eyes become yellow), develop kidney failure, and bleed. [6]
Research in the 1920s and 1930s identified what appeared to be a new type of Rickettsia, isolated from ticks, that was able to pass through filters.The first description of what may have been Coxiella burnetii was published in 1930 by Hideyo Noguchi, but since his samples did not survive, it remains unclear as to whether it was the same organism.
An etiological agent of disease may require an independent co-factor, and be subject to a promoter (increases expression) to cause disease. An example of all the above, which was recognized late, is that peptic ulcer disease may be induced by stress, requires the presence of acid secretion in the stomach, and has primary etiology in ...
DR.WEIL'S ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET is designed to reduce chronic inflammation and related chronic diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and others, Harbstreet says. It also aims to ...
Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss microbiologist.He is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases.His works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
Theodor Otto Diener (28 February 1921 – 28 March 2023) was a Swiss-American plant pathologist. [1] In 1971, he discovered that the causative agent of the potato spindle tuber disease is not a virus, but a novel agent, which consists solely of a short strand of single-stranded RNA without a protein capsid, eighty times smaller than the smallest viruses.
WORCESTER — Karel Mangual, one of two men who police believe killed Chasity Nuñez and her 11-year-old daughter Zella last week, now faces two charges of murder, one day after the other man ...