Biomedical subjects
J Arístegui
Publications and source records attributed to J Arístegui.
[Gastroenteritis caused by Campylobacter jejuni in childhood. Study of 100 cases].
Authors report results of the study on a series of 100 pediatrics patients with Campylobacter gastroenteritis whose ages were between 1 month and 14 years. Incidence of Campylobacter jejuni isolation among 2,733 samples of diarrheal stools, examined during a period of 3 years, was 146 cases (5.03%). Several epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects of the infection are analysed. Campylobacter jejuni is an important enteric pathogen in infancy, and clinical symptoms due to infection are diarrhea, fever, vomits and abdominal pain. Illness is frequently self-limited and resolution is favourable in most cases with symptomatic treatment.
[Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in childhood. Report of 3 cases and review of the literature].
Three infants with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are reported. Two cases belong to infants died with AIDS; one of them have as infection source multiple transfusions of blood during the neonatal period and the other case was an haemophilic children transfused several times with commercial factor VIII. The third case belong to an infant, four months old, with AIDS-related complex, born of mother intravenous drug abuser. The authors comments some characteristics about pediatric AIDS and the present problems.
[Limulus test in diagnosis of acute meningitis (author's transl)].
We tried to evaluate the utility of the Limulus Test in the diagnosis of acute meningitis. The study was made in 60 patients divided in three groups: Group A, formed by 37 children affected by purulent meningitis of known etiology; Group B, formed by 10 children affected by purulent meningitis of unknown etiology; Group C, formed by 13 children with viral meningitis. The results were compared with a control group (Group D), of 10 healthy children. The results correlated with the etiology, the cuantitative count of germs/ml. in C.S.F. and the clinical evolution. The results indicated that the Test is a rapid, simple and useful tool for the detection of endotoxin in the C.S.F. of purulent meningitis caused by Gram negative germs.