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G Kanra

Publications and source records attributed to G Kanra.

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PubMed1988

[Giardiasis].

In this review article the general properties, epidemiology, pathogenesis and the clinical course of Giardia lamblia infection has been discussed under the light recent developments.

Giardiasis↗
PubMed1988

[Rubella antibody levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

Rubella virus as an etiological agent in Rheumatoid arthritis has been investigated. Synovial fluid obtained from 28 cases and the sera from 70 cases (43 girls, 27 boys) has been screened for hemagglutination inhibition antibodies. As a control group, 36 cases (20 normal, 16 children with non-rheumatoid arthritis) were incluated in the study. There was no difference in the antibody titers of the two groups. Therefore, we could not establish a direct relation of Rubella virus with rheumatoid arthritis.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1988

[A clinical trial with ampicillin and sulbactam in various infections].

Eighty four patients with various infections were treated with parenteral ampicillin and sulbactam. Twenty seven patients had meningitis five septic arthritis and osteomyelitis, two systemic salmonellosis, nine intrathoracic infections, five of which were complicated with pleural empyema; thirty patients had infection of the deep tissues of the neck, and the remaining eleven had soft tissue infection in different localizations. The clinical and microbiological results were interpreted together and the overall rate of success in treatment with ampicillin and sulbactam was found to be 98.8%.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1987

[Acute maxillary sinusitis treated with spiramycin].

25 girls (54.3%) and 21 boys (45.7%) total 46 patients with clinically and radiologically proven acute maxillary sinusitis have been treated with spiramycin. The dosage of the drug was 50 mg/kg/daily and the duration of the therapy was 10 days. Total cure has been achieved in 34 patients (73.9%) and no side effects of the drug has been detected.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1987

Cutaneous anthrax.

The case of a 9-year-old boy diagnosed and treated for cutaneous anthrax is presented. We discuss the clinical features and course of this disease, encountered today only rarely in less developed regions where humans are in contact with infected animals.

Anthrax↗
PubMed1986

[Neonatal group B colonization and maternal urogenital and anorectal system carriage].

In pregnant women, the main reservoirs of group B streptococci (GBS) are rectum and urethra. The mother's birth canal and the newborn infant easily contract the organisms from these sites. We studied 100 women and their newborn babies to determine the relation between the maternal carriage and the neonatal group B streptococcal colonization. Vaginal, urethral and rectal swabs obtained from all pregnant women during labor. Within a few minutes after birth and on day 4 of life swab specimens were also taken from the external auditory canal, throat and umbilicus of the infants. The overall maternal carriage rate was found to be 7.00 percent. The frequency of transmission to the neonates was found to be 57.14 percent among maternal carriers. In early neonatal period, the colonization rate of GBS was found to be % 4.0 percent and the infection rate of GBS was found to be 2.0 percent among the newborn population.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1986

[Vitamin E therapy in viral hepatitis].

Vitamin E therapy was compared with no treatment in a randomized, prospective trial for treatment of viral hepatitis in children. Patients received either vitamin E. (n:21), 300 mg./day intramuscularly every 24 hours, for seven days, or no treatment (n:20). The mean age (6.6 and 6.2), sex ratio, and the mean duration of illness before administration to study of two groups were similar. No difference was noted in the mean serum transaminases and alkaline phosphatase levels between both groups.

Alanine Transaminase↗
PubMed1985

[Importance of vaccination and bacteriological studies in diphtheria epidemics].

The Ouchterlony - Elek gel diffusion test was performed in twenty-nine patients having a positive culture result for diphtheria bacilli on Loeffler and tellurite agars in January and February, 1984 and toxin production was detected in 20 of them. Except one adult patient, the cases ranged in age 2 and 12 years. In 14 patients who have received at least one immunization with diphtheria vaccine had no complication, besides three patients without immunization in whom two received antibiotics plus antitoxin therapy had carditis and soft palate paralysis. Five patients in the non-immunized group and 6 patients in the group received at least one immunization had diphtheritic membrane. In spite of three patients with cardiac and neural complications, with early diagnosis and beginning therapy with antibiotics and antitoxin before the result of in vitro toxigenicity test, O% mortality rate was obtained.

Antibody Formation↗
PubMed1984

[A cerebellar abscess caused by anaerobic and aerobic (mixed) microorganisms].

A 15 year old boy was admitted to hospital with five days history of fever, headache, vomiting and otorrhea. Findings on physical examination included high fever, purulent drainage from right ear, nuchal rigidity, Brudzinski's and Kernig's signs. Laboratory finding was polymorphonuclear leukocytosis. Computerized tomography (CT) of his brain was normal. A lumbar puncture disclosed purulent CSF. Chloramphenicol and Penicillin G were given intravenously as treatment for the meningitis. After five days of this therapy he continued to be febrile and nuchal rigidity, Brudzinski's and Kerning's signs increased. The second CT demonstrated the presence of an abscess in the cerebellum. The abscess was aspirated during mastoidectomy. In the cultures of the aspiration material Bacteroides species and gram positive micrococci grew out. Metronidazole, 500 mg qid per oral, was added to the therapy. During treatment, his condition was evaluated with serial computerized tomography scans of his brain and these studies showed progressive decrease in the size of the lesion. Metronidazole and antibiotics therapies were continued 45 days. The patient made an uneventful recovery.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

Accidental vaccinia vulva vaginitis.

A thirty year old woman in whom an uncommon complication of smallpox vaccination developed is presented herein. In this case, virus was transmitted from the recently vaccinated child to the vulva and the vagina of the incompletely immune mother. The diagnosis was confirmed by a viral culture and a direct smear. The patient was treated intravenously with cytosine arabinoside (Cytosar) 3 mg/kg and was completely cured after seven days.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Thrombocytopenic purpura related to rubella infection.

Serologic studies for rubella (hemagglutination inhibition and complement fixation changes) were carried out at two-week intervals in 15 patients with acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and in age-matched controls in the same season during a small rubella epidemic. Hemagglutination inhibition, sucrose density gradient for hemagglutination inhibition, and complement fixation titer changes implicated recent rubella infection as an etiologic factor in five of the 15 patients.

Adolescent↗