https://joii-journal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12348-018-0151-x A 19-year-old immunocompetent female presented with painful diminution of vision in the left eye since 10 days. It had a sudden onset with rapid progression. It was not associated with floaters or visual phenomena during the initiation or course of the symptoms. She denies...
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May 3, 2019 ranjit
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https://academic.oup.com/omcr/article/2017/11/omx083/4616322 Paragonimiasis is an important food-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by trematodes of genus Paragonimus. We report case series of paragonimiasis with common symptoms of cough with blood tinged sputum, shortness of breath, chest pain with occasional fever, eosinophilia and radiological findings mimicking pulmonary tuberculosis and had...
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May 3, 2019 ranjit
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https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ap.2018.63.issue-3/ap-2018-0053/ap-2018-0053.xml
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May 3, 2019 ranjit
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https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-018-3133-z Background Echinostomiasis is a food-borne infection caused by an intestinal trematodes belonging to the family Echinostomatidae. They infect the gastrointestinal tract of humans. Patients are usually asymptomatic. However, with heavy infections, the worms can produce catarrhal inflammation with mild ulceration and the patient may...
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May 3, 2019 ranjit
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383576918304057 Gastrodiscoidiasis is a snail-transmitted zoonotic infection caused by the digeneantrematodeGastrodiscoides hominis, which is the only species in the genus Gastrodiscoides infecting humans. We report a case of human gastrodiscoidiasis in a 66 years-old Nepali man without history of travels outside of Nepal who was admitted in the hospital with...
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May 3, 2019 ranjit
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https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/5/10/ofy237/5098452 Thelaziasis is an ocular arthropod-borne, zoonotic disease of the eye infecting the conjunctival sac, lacrimal duct, and lacrimal gland caused by a nematode of the genus Thelazia. We report the first case of human ocular thelaziasis in Nepal in a 6-month-old child from a Rukum...
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May 3, 2019 ranjit
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/iid3.250 Introduction Trichosporon asahii is an emerging cause of systemic fungal infection in an immunocompromised host. Several life threatening disseminated T. asahii infection in single solid organ (liver or kidney) transplant recipients, in neutropenic and hematological malignancy patients have been reported. Case presentation A 49‐year old gentleman who...
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May 3, 2019 ranjit
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Nocardiosis need prolonged treatment for cure and prolonged incubation for its culture growth. A patient was admitted to the nephrology ward of TUTH with diagnosis of Nephrotic syndrome. He had pulmonary symptoms of fever, cough, chest pain and abscess in right thigh. He was under...
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October 22, 2016 ranjit
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Pan drug resistance organism having OXA-48 drug resistance pattern in ICU of Nepal A patient was admitted in ICU with the diagnosis of septic shock. His multiple samples were sent to the laboratory for multiple times. Klebsiella pneumonia was isolated in his sputum sample...
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October 20, 2016 ranjit
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae biovar gravis causing death of a 5 years old child within 4 hours of hospital admission. We already had diagnosed three different cases of diphtheria in Nepal from two different places when a fourth case presented to us. We had a female patient...
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October 5, 2016 ranjit
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