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V Luca

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["Minor" salmonelloses on the offensive; clinico-epidemiological aspects of Salmonella agona infections].

The incidence of "minor" salmonelloses, (one of the main infantile enteritis), has increased of late, the principal agent in 1977 and 1978 being Salmonella agona. The present paper is a clinico-epidemiological study of the characteristics of a recent episode comprising 46 cases due to Salmonella agona. Most of the cases treated in hospital had a prevalently enterocolitic aspect, without extraenteral complications, but with a reserved prognosis (10% mortality rate in the authors' experience) when associated with other diseases (bronchopneumonia, otitis, otoantritis) or when the child has a deficient constitution (congenital or acquired). It is difficult to get rid of the germ, of particular importance especially when the children return to children's institutions, by means of an etiotropic therapy, which in many cases may even delay elimination of the salmonellas. In Salmonella infections the carrier excretory state is intermittent rather than permanent. Salmonellosis caused by the agona serotype may be listed, as most of the so-called "minor" cases, in the "central" group according to the classification propossed by Newell and adopted by the World Health Organization in 1959.

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[The streptococcal and staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome. Comments on 4 cases].

Between 1989 and 1995 in the Hospital of Infectious Diseases from Iaşi have been diagnoses 4 cases of streptococcal/staphylococcal toxic syndrome. Three patients have been grown up and one child. Two of them were immunocompromised hosts (cirrhosis, lung tuberculosis, alcoholism). The gate of entry was cutaneous in 3 cases and probably mucous in the 4th case. The clinical symptoms were fever, generalized erythematous rush followed by desquamation, low arterial pressure with oliguria, tachycardia, jaundice moderate, elevated ALAT. The bacteriological diagnosis was confirmed by isolating the pathogen agent from the erysipelatous placard and from blood culture. The evolution of the illness was nefavourable in 2 cases. The cause of the death was the MSOF (multiple systemic organic failure).

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[Postoperative and posttraumatic meningitis. Comments on 87 cases].

Iatrogenic and traumatic cerebromeningitis infections are increasing in frequency in the last two decades. Retrospective analysis of 87 patients iatrogenic and traumatic bacterial meningitis were admitted in the Clinic of Infectious Diseases from Iaşi between 1, 01, 1990-31, 12, 1994. Head trauma, lumbar punctures and iatrogenic meningitis infections were the causes cerebromeningitis infections. The diagnosis is usually difficult because of the poor specificity of the clinical signs. Predominant pathogens were gram-negative bacteria and Staphylococcus in iatrogenic meningitis and gram-positive bacteria (S. pneumoniae) in traumatic meningitis. The treatment was based on the use penicillin G + chloramphenicol, 3rd generation cephalosporins and sometimes 2nd generation quinolones. Ten of the 87 patients with iatrogenic and traumatic cerebromeningitis infections died (10.3%).

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