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FindZebra: The Search Engine for Difficult Medical Cases
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The name of FindZebra
The term "zebra" is a medical slang for a surprising diagnosis. Physicians
are taught since medical school to concentrate on the more common
diseases: "when you hear a gallop, you should think about a horse, not a
zebra".
"I look for zebras because other doctors have ruled out all the horses."
Dr. Gregory House
Indexed medical sources
We index over 31,000 medical articles focused on rare and genetic diseases
from reputable sources on the internet. The articles are collected from
the following sources:
Orphanet: an online rare disease and orphan drug data base. Copyright,
INSERM 1997. Available on www.orpha.net
Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Category
Rare Diseases. Available on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rare_diseases
NORD Rare Disease Database and Organizational Database. The National
Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD). Available on rarediseases.org/
The Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD). Available on
rarediseases.info.nih.gov/GARD
Swedish Information Centre for Rare Diseases. Swedish National Board of
Health and Welfare. Available on www.socialstyrelsen.se/rarediseases
m-Power Rare Disease Database. Madisons Foundation. Available on
www.madisonsfoundation.org/
Health On the Net Foundation. Available on
www.hon.ch/HONselect/RareDiseases/
Rare Diseases. About.com Health. Available on rarediseases.about.com/
Genetics Home Reference: A service of the U.S. National Library of
Medicine. Available on: ghr.nlm.nih.gov/BrowseConditions
Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Category
Syndromes. Available on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Syndromes
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM. McKusick-Nathans Institute of
Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) and National
Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine
(Bethesda, MD). Available on www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/
Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Selected
pages on rare diseases. Available on en.wikipedia.org/
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FindZebra should only be used by medical professionals. Although the
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erroneous use of the information provided through the system.
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Sample Entry:
Trench fever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench%20fever
Trench fever (also known as "Five day fever", "Quintan fever" (febris
Quintana in Latin), "Urban trench fever") is a moderately serious disease
transmitted by body lice. It infected armies in Flanders, France, Poland,
Galicia, Italy, Salonika, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt in World War I
(three noted sufferers being the authors J.R.R. Tolkien A. A. Milne, and
C.S. Lewis) and the German army in Russia during World War I. From 1915 to
1918 between one-fifth and one-third of all British troops reported ill
had trench fever while about one-fifth of ill German and Austrian troops
had the disease. The disease persists among the homeless.Milonakis,
Eleftherios, and Michael A. Forgione. "Trench Fever". EMedicine. 26 June
2006. 11 June 2007 . Outbreaks have been documented, for example, in
Seattle and Baltimore in the United States among injection drug users and
in Marseille, France, and Burundi. Trench fever is also called Wolhynia
fever, shin bone fever, quintan fever, five-day fever, Meuse fever, His
disease and His-Werner disease (after Wilhelm His, Jr. and Heinrich
Werner). The disease is caused by the bacterium Bartonella quintana (older
names: Rochalimea quintana, Rickettsia quintana), found in the stomach
walls of the body louse. Bartonella quintana is closely related to
Bartonella henselae, the agent of cat scratch fever. ==Pathology and
transmission== Bartonella quintana is transmitted by contamination of a
skin abrasion or louse-bite wound with the faeces of an infected body
louse (Pediculus humanus corporis). There have also been reports of an
infected louse bite passing on the infection. ==Symptoms== The disease is
classically a five-day fever of the relapsing type, rarely with a
continuous course instead. The incubation period is relatively long, at
about two weeks. The onset of symptoms is usually sudden with high fever,
severe headache, pain on moving the eyeballs, soreness of the muscles of
the legs and back, and frequently hyperaesthesia of the shins. T...
Source: Wikipedia.org
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