Infectious diseases

• SARS-CoV-2
  29 March 2020

  WKP
  Definition : Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), previously known by the provisional name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus.
  It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that was designated a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
  SARS-CoV-2 has (...)

• SARS-CoV-1
  29 March 2020

  SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1); Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus WKP
  Definition : Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is the strain of virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
  It is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus which infects the epithelial cells within the lungs. The virus enters the host cell by binding to the ACE2 receptor.
  It infects humans, bats, and palm civets.
  A pandemic due to novel (...)

• Coronaviridae
  29 March 2020

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  Definition : Coronaviridae is a family of enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses. The viral genome is 26–32 kilobases in length. The particles are typically decorated with large ( 20 nm), club- or petal-shaped surface projections (the "peplomers" or "spikes"), which in electron micrographs of spherical particles create an image reminiscent of the solar corona.
  Examples :
  Coronavirus in coronavirus (...)

• coronavirus infections
  29 March 2020

  COVID ; coronavirus respiratory syndrome, coronavirus pneumonia, coronavirus flu ; coronavirus disease WKP
  Definition : A coronavirus disease (COVID) is a disease caused by members of the coronavirus (CoV) family.
  It may refer to:
  severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) : a disease caused by SARS-CoV, first occurred in a 2002–2004 outbreak
  middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) : a disease caused by MERS-CoV, first occurred in a 2012–2014 outbreak, and since then, recurring (...)

• Herpes simplex infection
  13 February 2020

  Images
  Herpes simplex infection https://twitter.com/Patholwalker/status/1227853371106709505/photo/1
  See also
  Herpes simplex virus

• Blastomyces dermatitidis
  18 June 2019

  Examples
  Blastomyces dermatitidis in the #cerebellum of an #immunosuppressed patient https://twitter.com/CraigHorbinski/status/1140665591029751808

• Blastomyces sp.
  18 June 2019

  Examples
  Blastomyces dermatitidis in the cerebellum of an immunosuppressed patient https://twitter.com/CraigHorbinski/status/1140665591029751808

• coccoid form of Helicobacter Pylori
  14 June 2019

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  Images
  coccoid form of Helicobacter Pylori https://twitter.com/huda_rr1/status/846381455550795776 https://twitter.com/LizMontgomeryMD/status/1138875538322350080

• smallpox
  13 March 2019

  Examples
  A patient with smallpox in 1912. https://twitter.com/PastMedHistory/status/1097410965488967680

• BCG
  14 February 2019

  Bacillus of Calmette-Guérin
  Images
  non-caseating granulomas following intravesical BCG therapy for high-grade urothelial carcinoma. https://twitter.com/WebPathology/status/1095706511337246722
  See also
  granulomatous inflammation
  cystitis

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