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F Căruntu

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Value of serological tests in the diagnosis of viral acute respiratory infections in adults.

The dynamics of the antibody response to influenza viruses A (H1N1), A (H3N2) and B, to parainfluenza viruses 1, 2, 3, to adenoviruses and respiratory syncytial virus was studied in paired serum samples collected from 110 patients hospitalized with acute respiratory infections (ARI) and in 40 patients suffering from other diseases. Rises in serum antibody titers to 1--5 of the above mentioned antigens were detected in many of the patients of both groups. The fact is most likely due to the presence of some epidemiologically and clinically uncharacteristic viral ARI (influenza included); simultaneous or successive infections with influenza virus and different other viruses were very frequent. A greater efficiency of the etiological diagnosis of viral ARI can be achieved only by the association of epidemiological and clinical criteria with serological data, the visualization of viral antigens and virus isolation.

Acute Disease↗
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[Control of the effectiveness of antibiotic therapy by determining the antibacterial activity of the blood and cerebrospinal fluid].

Determination of the antibacterial action of serum and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an excellent method for controlling the efficiency of antibioticotherapy in severe bacterial infections such as septicemia, endocarditis, meningitis. The author studied comparatively two methods for determining the antibacterial action of serum and CSF, namely dilution of the standard inoculum and diffusimetric methods. There was satisfactory agreement between the two methods. Hence, diffusimetry, a simple readily performed method, may be considered as an orientative test of the greatest utility, available for any of the lesser clinical laboratories.

Anti-Bacterial Agents↗
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[The etiological profile of the pulmonary manifestations in AIDS patients (studies of 65 cases recorded in Romania up to 1 March 1993)].

HIV infection and its final form as AIDS were ignored by the public opinion in Romania till 1990. Nowadays it is real fact in our country. Out of total number of 2235 AIDS cases declared till March 1st 1993 by the Ministry of Health only 134 were adult persons. The study concerns 65 cases of AIDS in adults in order to find out the lung symptoms proportion as etiologic features, to settle the ways of transmission of HIV infection and to warn the romanian pneumologists on this problem. The study shows that in 56.9% of total cases, lung symptoms were noted and in 49.2% the lung disease revealed the AIDS. Out of the total number of 65 cases, 24.6% showed tuberculosis as a first disease, 12.4% lung pneumocystosis, 7.76 Kaposi syndrome with lung expression and 4.5% other pneumopathies.

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections↗
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Preliminary investigations on the diagnostic value of passive hemagglutination and complement fixation tests in infections with Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

In order to evaluate the efficiency of passive hemagglutination (PHA) and complement fixation (CF) tests for the diagnosis of M. pneumoniae infections, 144 serum samples--out of which 81 from patients with respiratory and cutaneous infections and 63 from subjects with other diseases (controls)--were comparatively investigated by the two methods. The PHA test made evident a positivity index of 65% in the case of mixed pneumonias, as against 17% in controls, while the results obtained by CF were almost identical in the two groups investigated. The high specificity and sensitivity of the PHA reaction recommend this method for the diagnosis of acute M. pneumoniae infections.

Antibodies, Bacterial↗