Study on the Role of Gastrointestinal Parasite in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients in a Tribal Region of India.

Background Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorder in which abdominal pain is associated with a change in bowel habits. Gut inflammation might be one of the mechanisms of pathogenesis. However, the cause of IBS is not clearly understood.

Tubercular lesion of the foot presenting as epithelioma.

Tuberculosis continues to be the biggest public health problem worldwide. Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TVC) is a verrucose form of cutaneous tuberculosis that occurs in previously sensitised individuals due to exogenous reinfection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis, and it reflects good cell-mediated immunity. An elderly man presented with multiple fungating growths, which were painless but associated with mild itching and serous discharge, on the right foot for 40 years.