Category: ID

Clinical Correlations


Mystery Quiz- The Answer

Dana Clutter, MD

Edited by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors

Faculty peer reviewed

The answer to the mystery quiz is bacillary angiomatosis (BA). BA is a disease that most frequently affects individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and typically …

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The Challenge of Measles Control

Diseases 2.0 ID 13 min read

By Taher Modarressi

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Measles remains one of the leading causes of preventable child mortality worldwide, despite the development of an effective vaccine in the 1960s. Even …

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What Should We Know About Bedbugs?

Class Act ID 5 min read

Jia Huang

Faculty peer reviewed

A 46 year-old Asian female presented with recurrent pruritic erythematous papules in a partially linear pattern over her forearms, face, and trunk. Each papule measured about 3/4 …

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