Slow Virus Infections Microbiology

3. The princes. Prion infections. Patogenez Prion infections.
4. Kuru. Smoker. Croitzfeldt Jacob's disease. Croitzfeldt-Jacob's surgeon.
5. Herstman-Straussler-Shinker syndrome. Fatal family insomnia.
The term " slow infection " indicates the protracted nature of the diseases spread over the months and years. Slow infections have the following characteristics.
♪ Longitudinal period (months and years).
♪ Converse and irreversible tissue damage, predominantly CNS.
♪ Slow progress of the disease.
● Summer exodus.
Slow infections are divided into two groups: the first is viruses, the second is pawns.
Slow virus infections
Based slow pathogens viral infections Long-term persistation of the incinerator in the system and slow damage to cells. As these diseases were examined, unexpected facts were found, at first glance.
♪ Slow infections may be caused by acute virus diseases - measles (sclerosion and post-harvest Pancephalitis panes), rubella (reflecting birth-born redneck, progressive redneck pancephalitis), herpes (spicy herpetic encephalitis, chronic infection, mono-circose
♪ Many viral infections, previously considered acute, can be fully regarded as slow (patch encephalitis, rabies, HIV, hepatitis B, C, D, G and TTV, T-cletoch lymphomas caused by human lymphopic viruses I and II).
The most typical slow virus infections are sclerotic panencephalitis and progressive leukoncephalopathy.
♪ Read "Acute scleosing panencephalitis. Progressive lakoencephalopathy."