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G Torreggiani

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[IgE levels in children affected by respiratory allergies (author's transl)].

Radioimmunological technique has been used in order to measure IgE seric levels on 100 children affected by respiratory allergies, on 46 children with non allergic respiratory diseases and on 54 healthy children distributed in different classes of age. In the 58% of cases, allergic subjects presented IgE levels remarkably increased compared with non allergic ones, in the 28% of cases IgE levels had an insignificant increase, and in the remaining 14% the values were comparable with those of the non allergic subjects.

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[Systematic study of pharyngeal and nasal bacteria in children affected by relapsing diseases of respiratory organs (author's transl)].

The research was conducted on 191 nasal and pharyngeal swabs from children aged between two and ten years, affected by relapsing diseases of their respiratory organs. The aim has been that of isolating those bacteria whose action cause the most frequent respiratory diseases. They are: Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus C+, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas and other Gram-negative bacteria. The isolated bacteria were submitted to sensitivity tests and to the normally used antibiotics. From this research follow the necessity to know which bacteria play the pathogenous role from patient's serological alterations.

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