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Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP
Case data A 91-year-old man was assessed by the infectious diseases service at Surrey Memorial Hospital after 3 months of swelling and erythema in the third digit of his left hand. He reported spontaneous development... Read More
Eumycetoma is a rare, chronic disease in which fungal entities implant into various body tissues, causing granulation and inflammation.[1] It is endemic in countries along the tropics and affects approximately 1.81... Read More
Between 2009 and 2020, 20 546 people in Canada were reported to have tuberculosis.[1] However, multidrug-resistant (defined as resistance to isoniazid and rifampin) and pre-extensively drug-resistant/extensively drug-... Read More
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of recognizing and diagnosing travel-related infections. In 2018, 67 million passengers enplaned and deplaned in Canadian airports for international travel.[... Read More
Dr Yazdan Mirzanejad Welcome to the second of a two-part series on infectious diseases in British Columbia (part 1 appeared in the May 2022 issue of the BCMJ). The first article in... Read More
Dr Yazdan Mirzanejad Infectious diseases are the most common diagnoses in inpatient and outpatient medicine.[1,2] We are facing many emerging infectious diseases challenges in the... Read More
Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in North America and Europe. It is caused by the gram-negative spirochete bacteria Borrelia spp., which are transmitted by the Ixodes spp. tick.[1] In Canada, the... Read More