Incorporating pathology in the practice of infectious disease: Myths and reality

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1133-1141

  Guarner, Jeannette ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Myths; Pathology; Practice; Reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PATHOLOGIST; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOPSY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROCEDURES;

BIOPSY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84930154907     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu469     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Black-Schaffer W, Young R, Harris N. Subspecialization of surgical pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Am J Clin Pathol 1996; 106:S33-42.
2. Groppi D, Alexis C, Sugrue C, Bevis C, Bhuiya T, Crawford J. Consolidation of the North Shore-LIJ Health System anatomic pathology services: The challenge of subspecialization, operations, quality management, staffing, and education. Am J Clin Pathol 2013; 140: 20-30.
3. Procop G,Wislon M. Infectious disease pathology. Clin Infect Dis 2001; 32:1589-601.
4. Swerdlow S, Campo E, Harris N, et al. WHO classification of tumours of haematopoietic and lymphoid tissues. 4th ed. Lyon: WHO Press, 2008.
5. Pathology, 2014. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pathology. Accessed 10 March 2014.
6. Welsby P. Training in Infectious Diseases: Report of a Joint Working Party of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists. Postgrad Med J 1990; 66:1086.
7. Joiner K, Powderly W, Blaser M, et al. Fellowship training in infectious diseases: A report from the regional and national meetings of infectious diseases division chiefs and program directors. Clin Infect Dis 1998; 26:1060-5.
8. Lee B. Infectious diseases training in Canada: One size does not fit all. Can J Infect Dis 2001; 12:98-100.
9. Spicer J, Kraft C, Burd E, Armstrong W, Guarner J. The value of casebased teaching vignettes in clinical microbiology rounds. Am J Clin Pathol 2014; 141:318-22.
10. Fekete T. Who killed lab rounds? Pharos 2013; 76:32-4.
11. Rossi F, Andreazzi D, Chao L. Development of a website for clinical microbiology in Brazil. J Telemed Telecare 2002; 8:14-7.
12. Andreazzi D, Rossi F,Wen C. Interactive tele-education applied to a distant clinical microbiology specialization university course. Telemed J E Health 2011; 17:524-9.
13. Naggie S, Perfect J. Molds: Hyalohyphomycosis, phaeohyphomycosis, and zygomycosis. Clin Chest Med 2009; 30:337-53.
14. Nucci M, Anaissie E. Fusarium infections in immunocompromised patients. Clin Microbiol Rev 2007; 20:695-704.
15. Sangoi A, Rogers W, Longacre T, Montoya J, Baron E, Banaei N. Challenges and pitfalls of morphologic identification of fungal infections in histologic and cytologic specimens: A ten-year retrospective review at a single institution. Am J Clin Pathol 2009; 131:364-75.
16. Guarner J, Brandt M. Histopathologic diagnosis of fungal infections in the 21st century. Clin Microbiol Rev 2011; 24:247-80.
17. Patel A, Gattuso P, Reddy V. Diagnosis of blastomycosis in surgical pathology and cytopathology: Correlation with microbiologic culture. Am J Surg Pathol 2010; 34:256-61.
18. Bueno-Fischer G, Mocelin H, Bittencourt-Severo C, de-Mattos-Oliveira F, Orzechowski-Xavier M, Severo L. Histoplasmosis in children. Paed Resp Rev 2009; 10:172-7.
19. Saubolle M. Laboratory aspects in the diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis. Ann NY Acad Sci 2007; 1111:301-14.
20. Oostman O, Smego R. Cervicofacial actinomycosis: Diagnosis and management. Curr Infect Dis Rep 2005; 7:170-4.
21. Shimizu A, Ishikawa O, Nagai Y, Mikami Y, Nishimura K. Primary cutaneous nocardiosis due to Nocardia nova in a healthy woman. Br J Dermatol 2001; 145:154-6.
22. Volante M, Contucci A, Fantoni M, Ricci R, Galli J. Cervicofacial actinomycosis: Still a difficult differential diagnosis. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 2005; 25:116-9.
23. Patel D, Riedel D. Fever in immunocompromised hosts. Emerg Med Clin N Am 2013; 31:1059-71.
24. Mukhopadhyay S. Role of histology in the diagnosis of infectious causes of granulomatous lung disease. Curr Opin Pulm Med 2011; 17:189-96.
25. Lamps L. Hepatic granulomas, with an emphasis on infectious causes. Adv Anat Pathol 2008; 15:309-18.
26. Guarner J. Detection of microorganisms in granulomas that have been formalin-fixed: Review of the literature regarding use of molecular methods. Scientifica (Cairo) 2012; 2012:494571.
27. Santos G, Parra E, Stegun F, Cirqueira C, Capelozzi V. Immunohistochemical detection of virus through its nuclear cytopathic effect in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia other than acute exacerbation. Braz J Med Biol Res 2013; 46:985-92.
28. Durand C, Marr K, Arnold C, et al. Detection of cytomegalovirus DNA in plasma as an adjunct diagnostic for gastrointestinal tract disease in kidney and liver transplant recipients. Clin Infect Dis 2013; 57:1550-9.
29. Müller H, Eisendle K, Bräuninger W, Kutzner H, Cerroni L, Zelger B. Comparative analysis of immunohistochemistry, polymerase chain reaction and focus-floating microscopy for the detection of Treponema pallidum in mucocutaneous lesions of primary, secondary and tertiary syphilis. Br J Dermatol 2011; 165:50-60.
30. Martín-Ezquerra G, Fernandez-Casado A, Barco D, et al. Treponema pallidum distribution patterns in mucocutaneous lesions of primary and secondary syphilis: An immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study. Hum Pathol 2009; 40:624-30.
31. Comfere N, Sokumbi O, Montori V, et al. Provider-to-provider communication in dermatology and implications of missing clinical information in skin biopsy requisition forms: A systematic review. Int J Dermatol 2013; 53:549-57.
32. Nakhleh E, Gephardt G, Zarbo R. Necessity of clinical information in surgical pathology. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1999; 123:615-9.
33. Lindeboom J, Bruijnesteijn-van-Coppenraet L, van-Soolingen D, Prins J, Kuijper E. Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of Mycobacterium haemophilum infections. Clin Microbiol Rev 2011; 24:701-17.
34. Nomura K, Fujimoto Y, Yamashita M, et al. Absence of pseudomembranes in Clostridium difficile-Associated diarrhea in patients using immunosuppression agents. Scan J Gastroenterol 2009; 44:74-8.
35. Gravdahl D, Gardetto J, Hurley J, Tazelaar H, Koontz P, Leslie K. Pulmonary histoplasmosis producing a spindle cell "pseudotumor." Am J Clin Pathol 2011; 136:410-5.
36. Sing Y, Ramdial P. Cryptococcal inflammatory pseudotumors. Am J Surg Pathol 2007; 31:1521-7.
37. Chen K. Mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumor of lymph nodes. Am J Surg Pathol 1992; 16:276-81.
38. Sato M, Ito S, Ogura M, et al. Atypical Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia with multiple nodular granulomas after rituximab for refractory nephrotic syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol 2013; 28:145-9.
39. Durack D, Lukes A, Bright D. New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: Utilization of specific echocardiographic findings. Duke Endocarditis Service. Am J Med 1994; 96:200-9.
40. Habib G, Hoen B, Tornos P, et al. Guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infective endocarditis (new version 2009): The Task Force on the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Endorsed by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) for Infection and Cancer. Eur Heart J 2009; 30:2369-413.
41. Castonguay M, Burner K, Edwards W, Baddour L, Maleszewski J. Surgical pathology of native valve endocarditis in 310 specimens from 287 patients (1985-2004). Cardiovasc Pathol 2013; 22:19-27.
42. Lee J, Burner K, Fealey M, et al. Prosthetic valve endocarditis: Clinicopathological correlates in 122 surgical specimens from 116 patients (1985-2004). Cardiovasc Pathol 2011; 20:26-35.
43. Zauner F, Gluck T, Salzberger B, et al. Are histopathological findings of diagnostic value in native valve endocarditis? Infection 2013; 41:637-43.
44. Voldstedlund M, Norum P, Baandrup U, Klaaborg K, Fuursted K. Broad-range PCR and sequencing in routine diagnosis of infective endocarditis. APMIS 2008; 116:190-8.
45. Fenollar F, Célard M, Lagier J, Lepidi H, Fournier P, Raoult D. Tropheryma whipplei endocarditis. Emerg Infect Dis 2013; 19:1721-30.
46. Edouard S, Million M, Royer G, Giorgi R, Grisoli D, Raoult D. Reduction in incidence of Q fever endocarditis: 27 years of experience of a national reference center. J Infect 2014; 68:141-8.
47. Lipsky B, Berendt A, Cornia P, et al. 2012 Infectious Diseases Society of America clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot infections. Clin Infect Dis 2012; 54:132-73.
48. Esposito S, Leone S, Bassetti M, et al. Italian guidelines for the diagnosis and infectious disease management of osteomyelitis and prosthetic joint infections in adults. Infection 2009; 37:478-96.
49. Miller AO, Henry M. Update in diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot infections. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2009; 20:611-25.
50. Athanasou N, Pandey R, de-Steiger R, Crook D, Smith P. Diagnosis of infection by frozen section during revision arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Br 1995; 77:28-33.
51. Feldman D, Lonner J, Desai P, Zuckerman J. The role of intraoperative frozen sections in revision total joint arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Am 1995; 77:1807-13.
52. Weiner R, Viselli S, Fulkert K, Accetta P. Histology versus microbiology for accuracy in identification of osteomyelitis in the diabetic foot. J Foot Ankle Surg 2011; 50:197-200.
53. Brinkman C, Vergidis P, Uhl J, et al. PCR-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for direct detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance from heart valves in patients with infective endocarditis. J Clin Microbiol 2013; 51:2040-6.
54. Zhang B,Wear D, Stojadinovic A, Izadjoo M. Sequential real-time PCR assays applied to identification of genomic signatures in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues: A case report about brucella-induced osteomyelitis. Mil Med 2013; 178:88-94.
55. Mahlen S, Clarridge JE Jr. Evaluation of a selection strategy before use of 16S rRNA gene sequencing for the identification of clinically significant gram-negative rods and coccobacilli. Am J Clin Pathol 2011; 136:381-8.
56. Clarridge JE Jr. Impact of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis for identification of bacteria on clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. Clin Microbiol Rev 2004; 17:840-62.
57. Hajjeh R, Relman D, Cieslak P, et al. Surveillance for unexplained deaths and critical illnesses due to possibly infectious causes, United States, 1995-1998. Emerg Infect Dis 2002; 8:145-53.
58. Guarner J, Paddock C, ShiehW, et al. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical features of fatal influenza virus infection in children during the 2003-2004 season. Clin Infect Dis 2006; 43:132-40.
59. Bhatnagar J, Jones T, Blau D, et al. Localization of pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza Avirus RNA in lung and lymph nodes of fatal influenza cases by in situ hybridization: New insights on virus replication and pathogenesis. J Clin Virol 2013; 56:232-7.
60. Talhari S, de-Souza-Santos M, Talhari C, et al. Borrelia burgdorferi "sensu lato" in Brazil: Occurrence confirmed by immunohistochemistry and focus floating microscopy. Acta Trop 2010; 115:200-4.
61. Sutton B, Parsons A, Palavecino E. Filamentous bacteria masquerading as fungi: A diagnostic pitfall in direct smear interpretation with report of two cases. J Clin Pathol 2011; 64:927-9.
62. Held T, Krüger D, Switala A, et al. Diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in bone marrow transplant recipients: Comparison of PCR-based results and immunohistochemistry. Bone Marrow Transplant 2000; 25:1257-62.