AN ACUTE ILLNESS FOLLOWING INOCU LATION WITH ANTITYPHOID VACCINE.

the impact of statin on influenza vaccine efficacy in the elderly and patients with acute respiratory illness

Survival in end-stage dementia following acute illness.

CONTEXT Little is known about the prognosis of acutely ill patients with end-stage dementia or about the type of care that these patients receive. If their prognosis is poor, then emphasis should be placed on palliative care for these patients rather than on curative interventions. OBJECTIVES To examine survival for patients with end-stage dementia following hospitalization for hip fracture o...

A Microbe Agglutinating with Antityphoid Serum

Sir,?This microbe was selected while examining the Jumna River water for typhoid by Prof. Hankin's method. The following is the description of this organism : ? Source?From the Jumna Iiiver at the intake of Agra water-works. Morphology.?From agar cultures, twentyfour hours' incubation at 37?c. Short bacilli in pairs at times, also seen in filaments or threads. Broth cultures twenty-four hours?S...

Observations on Antityphoid Vaccination

1. Metchnikoff and Besredka's living sensitized vaccine produces a typhoid cholecystitis when injected directly into the gall bladder of rabbits. It is therefore infectious. 2. Rabbits cannot be successfully immunized with this vaccine against direct gall bladder infections. Accordingly, rabbits cannot be used to test immunity in this way. 3. The strain used in the Army vaccine is pathogenic, r...

Malnutrition is an independent predictor of 1-year mortality following acute illness.

Four hundred and forty-five randomly selected hospitalised patients had their nutritional status assessed from anthropometric, haematological and biochemical data. Nutritional status was compared between survivors and non-survivors at baseline, 6 weeks and 6 months. Using Cox's proportional hazard analysis, we measured the association between nutritional assessment variables and 1-year mortalit...