Tag: Q fever
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Splenomegaly
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ANATOMY: The spleen is located in the left hypochondrium in the diaphragmatic dome. The normal rate measuring 10 to 12 cm in height and it is not palpable. In adulthood, the spleen has a role as defense barrier against encapsulated bacteria, physiological destruction of red blood cells. The spleen is an organ with multiple functions:…
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Rickettsia
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HISTORY: In 1916 Rocha-Lima discovers the body of a louse parasitizing a patient with typhus, long known disease, microorganisms for which he gives the name of Rickettsia prowazekii, named two bacteriologists died of typhus in studying this disease: Von Prowazek and Ricketts. In similar investigations, other microorganisms neighboring morphology were found, but it is essentially…
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