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Viral Pneumonia Overview
Pneumonia is an infection or inflammation of the lungs. It can be in just one part of the lungs, or it can involve many parts. Pneumonia is caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms.
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Viral arthritis
Definition:
Viral arthritis is inflammation of the joints that results from a viral infection.
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Noroviruses are responsible for more than 90 percent of viral gastroenteritis outbreaks in the United States each year. Norovirus infection can sweep through families and communities, leaving everyone it infects seriously ill.
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Viral bronchitis usually causes a mild fever. Little to no mucus is coughed up from the lungs in the beginning, and you usually do not feel very sick. If you have viral bronchitis along with the influenza (flu), you may feel quite ill.
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Viral Infections, Intestinal
The sudden onset of diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain usually means a child has contracted an intestinal infection, or gastroenteritis, which is most often caused by a virus.
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Viral gastroenteritis is an inflammation of the stomach and intestines caused by a viral infection.
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Viral or Bacterial Conjunctivitis
What is conjunctivitis?
Conjunctivitis is inflammation of the conjunctiva. The conjunctiva is the clear membrane that lines the eyelids and covers the white of the eye. Conjunctivitis is sometimes called pink eye.
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Antiviral: An agent that kills a virus or that suppresses its ability to replicate and, hence, inhibits its capability to multiply and reproduce.
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A cold is a viral infection that affects the upper airway including the nose, pharynx, throat, airways, and lungs.
What is going on in the body?
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Myocarditis, viral: Inflammation of the muscles in the walls of the heart due to a viral infection. Among the offenders are dozen of different common viruses, including the adenovirus, coxsackievirus, poliovirus, echoviruses, and influenza viruses.
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NASOPHARYNGEAL VIRAL CULTURES - A collection of nasopharyngeal secretions for the purpose of incubating a virus for identification.
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WOMAN'S NIGHT SWEATS MAY BE DUE TO VIRAL PNEUMONIA
Question: I'm a 38-year-old woman. I have been suffering with night sweats for three months. I wake up every night so wet and cold that I have to change my clothes at least two times.
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The common cold, also called viral rhinitis, is one of the most common infectious diseases in humans.
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Viral meningitis, sometimes referred to as nonbacterial or aseptic meningitis, is milder and more common than bacterial forms.
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Viral infections are one of the commonest causes of
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Viral infections are one of the commonest causes of dizziness, possibly because they, or the fever they induce, can upset the brain and nervous system.
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ANTI-RETROVIRAL TREATMENT
In recent years researchers have developed drugs that suppress HIV replication, as distinct from treating its effects on the body. These drugs fall into three classes: ...
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VIRAL BURDEN: See Viral Load.
VIRAL CORE: 1. Typically a virus contains an RNA or DNA core of genetic material surrounded by a protein coat. 2.
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Viral proteins E6 and E7 then disable the normal activities of the woman's own suppressor genes, which make suppressor proteins that do "damage surveillance" in normal cells.
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Viral infections that infect the heart are a major cause of cardiomyopathy.
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VIRAL INFECTIONS
SYMPTOMS"fever, muscular aches, chills, and headaches.
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Viral hepatitis may produce no symptoms at all. When they occur in type A, they usually begin suddenly and last for several weeks. This period is followed by a convalescent phase of anywhere from two to 12 weeks.
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Viral colds, laughing or prolonged talking, emotional stress, passive cigarette smoke inhalation, and drugs such as the beta blockers like propranolol (Inderal), and its relatives, all are known to be irritants.
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viral vector
A type of virus used in cancer therapy. The virus is changed in the laboratory and cannot cause disease. Viral vectors produce tumor antigens (proteins found on a tumor cell) and can stimulate an antitumor immune response in the body.
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Viral hepatitis
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Pain in the back that usually spreads under the rib cage, around the front, and into the groin.
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VIRAL HEPATITIS - Hepatitis caused by any of several known viruses for which physicians can perform tests.
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viral load tests Test that measures HIV RNA for use as a prognostic tool and/or to monitor the efficacy of anti-HIV drug regimens.
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A viral skin disease characterized by a soft wart-like growth on the genitals. In adults, the disorder is considered a sexually-transmitted disease, but in children the virus appears to be transmitted with or without sexual contact.
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A viral infection of certain sensory nerves that causes pain and an eruption of blisters on the skin along the course of the infected nerve.
zygote
A fertilized ovum (egg).
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Antiviral medication used to treat human flu viruses may be effective at treating bird flu.
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Hepatitis, Viral, Human - Viral hepatitis in man.
Pneumonia, Viral - Pneumonia caused by a virus. (Dorland, 28th ed)
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Mumps is a viral disease that causes swelling of the parotid glands (glands that produce saliva in the mouth).
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Medications, viral or bacterial infections, excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, lack of sunlight, sunburn, stress, general poor health, cold climate, and frequent friction on the skin are also associated with psoriasis flare-ups.
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) A viral disease that destroys the body's ability to fight infections, leaving the body susceptible to many other diseases. Acute A sudden onset of symptoms or disease.
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These median-sized viruses of high stability share many features in viral assembly to their human counterparts and thus are ideal model systems for developing method for 3D reconstruction, ...
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A group of cytokine proteins with antiviral properties, capable of enhancing and modifying the immune response. Interferon is released to coat uninfected cells so that they don't become infected.
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Due to the increased incidence of viral bacterial and parasite contamination, certain foods can also pose a risk to your developing baby.
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Because women are more likely to develop SLE than men, some researchers believe that a sex-linked genetic factor may play a part in making a person susceptible, although viral infection has also been implicated as a triggering factor.
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This is the most common viral disease for tropical fish. It is a viral disease which affects select groups of fish such as cichlids, but does not affect cyprinids or catfish.
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This article gives an outline of some new anti-viral agents (Relenza and Tamiflu) which have a role in treating cases of influenza.
This article profiles a range of important medications known as disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).
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For example, if the cause is an infectious agent, such as a viral or a bacterial infection, a systemic medication may be necessary. Xerosis in the absence of an infectious agent may require frequent and prolonged moisturizing therapy.
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Chronic inflammatory disease
Parasitic infection
Tuberculosis
Viral infection (for example, infectious mononucleosis, mumps, measles) ...
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Causes of Fingertip Infections?
Fingertip infections are caused by bacterial or viral agents that penetrate the skin by means of a wound.
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