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G Bartolozzi

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[Articular manifestations of 11 cases of Kawasaki syndrome observed in Toscana].

11 cases of Kawasaki's disease were studied: the patients originated from Toscana and had at least 5 to 6 of the major criteria established by the Japanese Committee for Research to diagnose Kawasaki's disease. No toxic or infectious agents could be identified. We believe, like many other authors, that the responsible agent must be searched for in the patient's environment. Genetic predisposition also plays an important role, as demonstrated in the Japanese population. Our study of 9 patients yielded no conclusive results concerning the role of genetic factors. Only a study involving a much greater number of patients could establish whether genetics plays a major role in the development of the disease.

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The outcome of Wilms' tumor in infants. Italy 1970-79.

Thirty-four infants under 1 year of age with Wilms' tumor were diagnosed and treated in 14 Italian pediatric oncology units during 1970-79. The 3-year survival rates decreased with higher group unilateral tumors: 95% in group I Wilms' tumor, 75% in group II and 20% in group III. The survival rates for children with group I and II Wilms' tumor were similar for those who were treated with surgery and chemotherapy and those who also received postoperative radiotherapy. During 1975-79 fewer patients with group I Wilms' tumor received radiotherapy (1 of 11) than during 1970-74 (4 of 6, p less than 0.05). All these children are alive at this writing.

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[Serodiagnosis of rotavirus infections in gastroenteritis of infants].

We report the use of the line immunoelectroosmophoresis (LIEOP), a modification of the immunoelectroosmophoresis (IEOP), for the serodiagnosis of rotavirus infection, in comparison with the complement fixation test. We tested 17 paired and 29 single sera from hospitalized children affected by acute gastroenteritis; rotavirus had been searched in the stools both by electron microscopy and IEOP. The LIEOP showed seroconversion in all the 11 cases with positive stools and also in 5 out of 5 patients whose stool sample had been negative. Either we had not been able to detect the virus, or there was an intervening (nosocomial) rotavirus infection. All sera which were reactive by complement fixation with bovine rotavirus were also reactive by LIEOP. Some of the sera which reacted by LIEOP, both with the homologous and the heterologous antigen, were negative by complement fixation.

Complement Fixation Tests↗