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R Gómez Lus

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PubMed1984

[Exanthematous viral diseases and measles: serology].

A study of antibodies against measles virus and other viral agents is made to investigate possible existence of a false measles or "measles-like" in 48 children with this disease during an epidemic. Hemagglutination-inhibiting technique was used to determine rubella antibodies, and complement fixation technique to measure those produced against other diseases studied. Results were grouped according to the seroconversions found. The following serologic diagnoses were found: twenty eight cases of measles, one of rubella, four of Coxsackie-Echo, three of Epstein-Barr infection, two of Parainfluenza, and one of respiratory syncytial virus infection. Some of the patients with an infection due to Coxsackie-Echo or Epstein-Barr viruses were simultaneously affected by measles. Results are commented and discussed, concluding that there in not any fixed pattern in the development of viral antibodies response in the child. Four of the cases studied were "measles-like".

Antibodies, Viral↗
PubMed1983

[Intestinal parasitoses: contribution to their clinical diagnosis].

A fairly high number of symptoms are usually ascribed to intestinal parasites, a fact leading many times to various treatments in the absence of diagnostic evidence. Aiming to correlate presence of parasite with that of signs and symptoms authors have reviewed 1,131 patients submitted, for several reasons, to a search of parasites which was positive in only 384 cases. Authors conclude that only eosinophilia is a quite constant finding in E. vermicularis infestation and abdominal pain and chronic diarrhea are often present during giardia infestations.

Adolescent↗
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Postoperative control for the persistence of positivity in three immunological tests used in the diagnosis of hydatidosis in children (E.L.I.S.A.-specific IgE, indirect hemagglutination and E.L.I.S.A.-total IgE).

The persistence of serological positivity was studied in 21 children with surgically proven hydatidosis. The children had been previously operated on between 10 months and 7 4/12 years before serum samples were extracted. Forty-eight people (19 adult and 39 children) were included as a control group. E.L.I.S.A. specific IgE and indirect hemagglutination techniques were used for the diagnosis of hydatid disease. Studies of the immunoglobulins and complement components IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE, C3, C4, C5 and factor B were done on the sera from the 21 children with histories of equinococciasis. The results are expressed according to the location and physical condition of the cyst, the time passed after surgery, the number of cysts and the number of surgical operations. We found persistence of positivity of up to 5 4/12 years for indirect hemagglutination and up to 6 7/12 years for specific IgE, in cases without evidence of clinical parasitation so we think that the postoperative control must be based on several serological determinations. The concordance between the two specific serological tests (specific IgE and indirect hemagglutination) was 80.95%; specific IgE having appeared more sensitive especially in cases of hepatic location. The results concerning the total IgE determination were highlighted in the immunoglobulin studies. We consider total IgE as being only orientative, because of the frequency with which it is found elevated in childhood diseases.

Adolescent↗