A 51 -year -old man showed at a hospital in Germany, as if he was ruining, with swelling and tenderness in his ankles and knees. Then, his heart stopped.

The doctors were able to revive him. Then, he had to work in an attempt to find out what was wrong. The man told him that he was suffering from diarrhea, weight loss, joint pain and fever for three months. His case was reported in this week issue The New England Journal of Medicine,

Blood tests did not detect any infection, but his heart imaging told a different story. Doctors saw “vegetation” on both their aortic valve and mitral valve. Vegetations are bunches or mass that are often formed by an infection, usually a bundle of protein, platelets, and infects germs stuck together. While they cause damage, where they completely dislike, they threaten to go to other parts of the body, such as the brain or lungs, and cause dangerous obstacles. In the case of man, vegetation mobile appeared on his aortic valve.

The man was quickly sent to emergency surgery to change his valve. Once removed, the diseased valve was sent to test what was in those dangerous public. The result was likely to be a surprise for doctors.

The man was in his heart Trophyima whipaliA very common environmental bacteria that live in soil. Only in extremely rare cases it causes an infection-but when it is a systemic, chronic and sometimes life-threatening called a whiplide disease. In this case, like a patient, one to three people in a million affects about one to three people in one million. Overall, 85 percent of the disease of the disease is in men.

Curious situation

So, such a common germs can also cause such rare infections? Researchers feel that it is due to a mess in genetic tendency and immune reactions. Many people probably get infected Tea. Whiplei As children, and either a touching or limited gastrointestinal infection. They then develop protective immune reactions. But some people who develop the disease of whipping, this process looks strange. Researchers envisage that white blood cells are called macrophages – which are normally attached and attacked the attackers – who are not able to finish the work. They are attached Tea. WhipleiBut do not neutralize the germs. When this happens, the immune system does not produce protective antibodies against bacteria, and raises the recruits for inflammation. This, in turn, leads to the development of a systemic infection.