Infections diaseases

Acid related diseases in Japan has changed during the past 50 years. Previously the prevalence of peptic ulcer, especially gastric ulcer was the most common acid related disease, and now reflux esophagitis is the most common diasease. Among peptic ulcer disease, the prevalence of drug-induced bleeding peptic ulcer is increasing. On the other hand, the prevalence of atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer is decreasing, because the infection rate of Helicobacter pylori had been decreasing, the eradication therapy for Helicobacter pylori is now popular, and the lifestyle has westernized...

Despite considerable advances in drinking water safety assurance and adherence to the public health standards, waterborne diaseases outbreaks have still been observed even in industrialized countries. The study objective was to map such outbreaks in the Czech Republic in 1995-2005. In this study, an outbreak is the occurrence of more cases of disease than normally expected within a specific place over a given period of time and a waterborne disease is a disease where water is the vehicle or source of infection...

AIMS: To compare unenhanced, gadolinium enhanced, delayed gadolinium enhanced FLAIR images, gadolinium enhanced and delayed gadolinium enhanced T1 images in different types of leptomeningeal diseases, and to determine the most accurate MRI sequence for the diagnosis of leptomeningeal disease. MATERIAL: and methods: Ten patients (6 men, 4 women, age: 52,7+/-16,4) clinically suspected of cerebral leptomeningeal infectious or tumoral disease underwent brain MR examination: Axial FLAIR and T1 SE images were acquired before, immediately after administration of gadobenate dimeglumine (0...