Spontaneous cures/diseases

BV being an infectious disease, antibiotics represent the logical therapeutic approach [39]. However, a high spontaneous cure rate in some patients without symptoms has been found [40], For this reason, placebo-controlled groups are recommended for antibiotic effectiveness trials. Besides systemic toxicity [4], antibiotic treatment... 

Some patients with acute pulmonary infection may have a spontaneous cure. Patients with progressive pulmonary disease should be treated... 

Trichomonal infections are reported more commonly in women than in men. In part this may be due to the smaller number of organisms found in the male urethra making detection more difficult, greater disease transmission rates from males to females, and the nature of male infections, which have a high spontaneous cure rate even in the absence of treatment. The typical clinical presentation of trichomoniasis in males and females is presented in Table 115-11. 

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is characterized by one or more slowly healing superficial ulcers that may be painful. These lesions are liable to further infection and may remain as open sores or become hard, wartlike nodules. The form of cutaneous leishmaniasis referred to as New Wodd disease is caused by species of the Leishmania (Viannia) bra iliensis complex (L bra liensis, L gujanensis, L panamanesis, and L peruviana) and species of the Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana complex (L mexicana, L ama onensis, and L vene uelensis) in the western hemisphere. Old World disease (oriental sore, Delhi or Baghdad boil) is caused by Leishmania tropica and Leishmania major m. Asia, Africa, and southern Europe, and Leishmania aethiopica, restricted to eastern Africa. The incubation period for cutaneous leishmaniasis ranges from a few weeks to several months. Spontaneous cures can take place in a period ranging from one month to several years. 

In 1796, armed with letters of introduction. Moss went to Philadelphia, advertised himself in public prints, exhibited himself for the then substantial admission price of one Quarter of a Dollar each person, and used the proceeds to purchase his freedom. Evidently, this was too much for Rush. Like the inquisitor who sees heresy wherever he looks, this was all Rush needed to see illness. What is striking, however, is that he regarded the Negro s biologically normal color as a disease, and Moss s skin disorder as a spontaneous cure. ... 

It is not clear whether Rush believed that the Negro should have a voice in deciding if he wanted to be cured, or whether he thought that for the treatment of the Negro, as for that of the madman, doctor knows best. In any case. Rush announced that Nature has lately unfurled a banner upon this subject. She has begun spontaneous cures of this disease in several black people in this country. Here he was referring to the case of Henry Moss, already mentioned. 

The behavior of sinus thrombosis may impact the natural history of an individual lesion. Cessation of venous hypertension by complete recanalization of the thrombosed sinus will interrupt the vicious circle and may lead to spontaneous cure of the disease. Progressive thrombosis or occlusion of the venous outflow channels may further increase venous hypertension, however, leading to an aggressive clinical course (Lawton et al. 1997). 

To achieve maximal cure rates and prevent relapse with the single 2-g dose of metronidazole, simultaneous treatment of infected sexual partners is necessary. In women treated with the alternative 7-day course, however, relapse rates are not appreciably different regardless of whether or not sexual partners are treated. It is speculated that in men, spontaneous resolution of trichomonal infection or a reduction in the number of trichomonads below the inoculum necessary to transmit disease may occur during the 7 days of a female s therapy. In patients who fail to respond to an initial course of metronidazole therapy, a second course of therapy with metronidazole 500 mg twice daily for 7 days is recommended. Patients refractory to a second course of treatment usually respond to a regimen using higher... 

Having set out to see whether spontaneous symmetry breaking can cure the disease of unwanted massless vector bosons in gauge theories, we seem to have reached the conclusion that spontaneous symmetry breaking introduces its own massless bosons, so that there appear to be two diseases instead of one. The extraordinary thing is, that, taken together, these two problems mutually compensate. 

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