Anaplasmosis is the second most common tick-borne disease in Canada, with rapidly rising incidence owing to the expanding ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a venous thrombus becomes lodged in lung arteries, causing impairment in oxygenation, ...

A 40-year-old man emigrated from India 2 years ago and has no prior medical conditions. He requested a clinic visit with his ...

An α-2 adrenergic agonist approved only for veterinary use, medetomidine is similar to xylazine, but substantially more ...

Negative-pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) is an underrecognized cause of acute noncardiogenic pulmonary edema It should be suspected in patients who rapidly develop acute hypoxemic respiratory distress ...

Cases in which a blood culture grows Staphylococcus aureus should always be treated as a true bloodstream infection Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is associated with substantial mortality and ...

Watson JC, Hadler SC, Dykewicz CA, Reef S, Phillips L. Measles, mumps, and rubella-vaccine use and strategies for elimination of measles, rubella, and congenital rubella syndrome and control of mumps: ...

The gastrointestinal pathogen Entamoeba histolytica causes amoebiasis Clinical severity ranges from the asymptomatic passage of cysts in the stool to fulminant dysentery. Potentially fatal ...

Figure 1: Photograph of a 71-year-old woman with vulvar lichen sclerosus, showing a large, atrophic, shiny, white plaque with petechia, involving the vulva, perineum and perianal areas in the classic ...

Pregnant people with measles are at higher risk of pneumonia, hepatitis, and hospitalization and have a 10-fold higher risk of death than those who are not pregnant.1 Infection also increases the risk ...