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Toxicoinfection

Type of foodborne illness which occurs due to ingestion of a bacteria that produces toxins within the gut. These toxins get absorbed and produce symptoms of the illness.

Cardiology

Most common site of aortic aneurysm

Abdominal aorta. Abdominal aortic aneurysm is known by the acronym: AAA

Medicine

Causative organism of Q fever

Coxiella burnetti is the causative agent of Q fever.

Medicine

Causative organism of lymphogranuloma venereum

Causative organism of lymphogranuloma venereum is Chlamydia trachomatis

Medicine

Wool sorters disease

Pulmonary anthrax found in workers in a wool factory, due to inhalation of anthrax spores from the wool of infected animals.

Medicine

Endemic Ascites

It was noticed in the Kusmi block of Sarguja district of Madhya Pradesh during the years 1973 and 1976. There was an outbreak of rapidly progressing ascites and

Medicine

Evening rise of temperature

This occurs mainly in tuberculosis and also in conditions such as leukemias, auto immune disorders. These are conditions producing mild rise in body temperature. In a normal person,

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Weil Felix Reaction

It is a heterophile agglutination test used for the serodiagnosis of typhus fever. It is based on the principle that the agglutinins present in the serum of patients

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Brill-Zinsser disease

Brill-Zinsser disease is the recrudescence of epidemic typhus in persons who earlier suffered from the disease. It is characterised by fever, transient rash and fall in blood pressure. It

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