If you have a body mass index of at least 40 for the last five years, then you are probably suffering from severe obesity. This means that you are most probably overweight by 60 pounds and are starting to have weight-related health problems that are starting to bother you already. Having these problems are just the beginning, and if you do not address your weight issue, as advised by Las
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Pneumocystis carinii is a common organism that is found worldwide. Although previously classified as a protozoan, evidence suggests that it may be fungal in nature. It infects
the lungs and causes no problems in normal human hosts. The organism is found in autopsy material from healthy people in up to 4% of cases.
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Toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii. It is a zoonosis, the definitive host in the lifecycle being cats. Primary human infection is acquired by ingestion of oocysts derived from animal excreta or from undercooked meats such as pork or mutton, the pig or sheep having
acted as an intermediate host.
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The disease usually begins in the rectum or the rectum and the sigmoid colon (the lower end of the large intestine) but may eventually spread along part or all of the large intestine. In patients with ulcerative colitis, ulcers and inflammation of the inner lining of the colon lead to symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding.
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Cystitis is commonly referred as the inflammation of the urinary bladder and caused by a bacterial infection in which case it is referred to as a urinary tract infection. Women are worst affected even though it can affect both the sexes. Bacterial cystitis is the most commonly found disease while other one is the interstitial cystitis. Sometimes it is difficult to diagnose which involve foreign organisms and hemorrhagic cystitis.
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For those with arterial blockage taking steps to unblock that artery, or arteries, should be priority number one. Unless you have a background in cardiovascular medicine, or know someone who has taken proactive action to unblock arteries it is difficult to know where to start.
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Signs of blocked arteries are all around us virtually all the time. Most with mild signs of blocked arteries probably don't recognize that there could be a larger problem looming if proactive steps aren't taken to reverse the condition.
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M. ulcerans causes chronic ulceration, usually on an exposed area of the body, often the lower limbs. The condition has a wide distribution in the tropics and is often called Buruli ulcer. The pathogenesis of M. ulcerans disease is related to its unique ability to produce a tissuedamaging toxin, mycolactone, recently characterized as a macrolide molecule which causes cell death by apoptosis.
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V. cholerae is a curved Gram-negative motile bacillus. Two biotypes are recognized, the classic biotype and the El Tor biotype. The organism is present in vast numbers in the faeces of infected patients. The El Tor biotype tends to cause more asymptomatic and mild infections, which resolve spontaneously and leave the patient excreting vibrios to infect others.
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