Under homeostatic conditions, the body is maintained in a finely tuned balance of coagulation and fibrinolysis. See Figure 1 for a depiction of normal hemostasis. The activation of the coagulation ...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation in the neonatal period is a secondary process triggered by a primary disease state. It is a disruption in the hemostatic balance of the coagulation and ...

The medical examiner's office listed Guerrero's primary cause of death as pneumonia and disseminated cryptococcus neoformans — or a fungal infection — with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ...

On June 2, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner announced Guerrero died from "Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and disseminated Cryptococcus neoformans due to acquired ...

Strongyloidiasis is a human parasitic disease caused by the helminth Strongyloides stercoralis whose treatment is particularly difficult in immunosuppressed patients due to their low responsiveness to ...

In a DOE crackdown on “politically one-sided materials that are deeply offensive to the Jewish community” being disseminated, Aviles-Ramos halted the release of mass communications sent to ...

More sensitive methodologies are necessary to improve strongyloidiasis diagnosis. This study compared the sensitivities of the McMaster modified technique and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays, ...

Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have introduced an innovative diagnostic tool aimed at improving the global monitoring of strongyloidiasis, a neglected tropical disease. This ...

The work is published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. The new test can differentiate between Strongyloides stercoralis, the species primarily responsible for human disease, and ...

dHEAL Global Research Centre, Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia eNational Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian ...

Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug (anthelmintic). It treats many worm infections, such as onchocerciasis (river blindness), ascariasis, and strongyloidiasis. These are all conditions caused by ...