Biomedical subjects
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An outbreak of chickenpox with spread to patients and staff on the isolation ward of a British field hospital during the Gulf war is described. The implications for the design and operation of field hospital isolation units should transmissible biological warfare agents be encountered in any future conflict are discussed.
We have reported the 22nd case in the literature of protothecosis, a rare disease of man and animals due to infection with non-chlorophyll-producing algae of the genus Prototheca. The skin is most often affected, but generalized, disseminated involvement has been reported. Infection is usually severe and may be fatal. Amphotericin B in combination with tetracycline is the treatment of choice.
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Loss of activity of the isoenzymes of gamma-glutamyl transferase and alkaline phosphatase has been shown to occur during electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gel. After studying the possible factors concerned in this loss, reasonable recovery from the gel can be obtained only for the isoenzyme staying at the origin. Maximum recovery is 60% for origin gamma-glutamyl transferase and 92% for origin alkaline phosphatase.
An enzyme assay which utilizes a coupled enzyme system may show a lag phase. To help to overcome problems associated with the kinetic measurement of these enzymes a modification to an LKB 8600 reaction rate analyser is described. It has been applied successfully to a kinetic method for the measurement of 5'-nucleotidase activity in serum.
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Benzathine penicillin G has been used in United States Navy and Marine Corps recruit camps since 1953 to reduce the incidence of streptococcal disease and its nonsuppurative complications-acute rheumatic fever and acute glomerulonephritis. This paper reviews the history of prophylactic penicillin use among U.S. Navy and Marine Corps recruits and discusses the rationale for continuing this practice today.