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K A Vuorio

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PubMed1990

Eight cases of patients with unfounded fear of AIDS.

This article describes eight cases of patients treated at the Psychiatric Department of the University Central Hospital of Turku (UCHT) Finland who all had as a common feature an unfounded fear of AIDS. Three of the patients committed suicide and one of them had overt suicidal tendencies. An unfounded fear of AIDS may be a sign of psychiatric disturbance with increased suicidal risk. Increased fear of AIDS seems to have correlation with media and counselling services. Owing to the fact that these patients primarily seek medical help from other fields of medicine than psychiatry, they are a new problem especially for general hospital psychiatry.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1983

Determination of IgG, IgM and IgA antibody responses in human toxoplasmosis by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

A 4-layer modification of ELISA for the determination of toxoplasma antibodies is described. In 103 Finnish blood donors 27 had antibodies against Toxoplasma gondii. One donor had IgM antibodies and IgA antibodies were found in 9. In patients with acute toxoplasmosis a vigorous IgG antibody response resulted in high antibody levels soon after infection, declining gradually to mean adult levels in approximately 2 yr. IgM antibodies appeared during the earliest phases of infection and disappeared as early as in 1 or 2 months in some cases and in most cases by the 6th month after infection. An IgA antibody response was also always seen. It was slower than the IgM response and could therefore be used to improve the laboratory diagnosis especially in cases where IgM antibodies had already disappeared and no further increase in IgG antibodies could be detected.

Antibodies↗