Rotaviral infection: epidemiology aspects, methods of prophylaxis

Toxoplasmosis: aspects concerning the epidemiology and the paraimmune prophylaxis

Paraimmunity, as a reactive phenomenon of the host’s organism, induced by various heterogeneous antigens – due to some common antigenic components – appears alongside specific immunity. In bacterial and viral immunology paraimmunity is better known and studied than in parasitic immunology. It is known that, generally speaking, paraimmunity appears simultaneously with specific immunity, induced ...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Preventing Postpartum Infection

بحث بر روی کاربرد پروفیلاکسی آنتی بیوتیک ها در مامائی، در اواخر سال ۱۹۴۰ شروع شد و تجویز پروفیلاکسی پنی سیلین به تمام بیماران در لیبر باعث کاهش شیوع تب از ۶/۳ به ۴/۲٪ می شود. ولی هرگز آنتی بیوتیک پروفیلاکسی بطور عمومی مورد قبول واقع نشد. بدلیل اینکه اولا شیوع عمومی عفونت، پائین است و عفونتها بندرت شدید می شوند، بطوریکه بیش از ۹۵ تا ۹۷ بیماران احتیاج به آنتی بیوتیک پیدا نمی کنند. شاید، تجویز غیر...

Epidemiology of Rotavirus Infection in Certain Countries

Abstract Acute diarrhea with severe dehydration has been a major worldwide cause of death in children younger than 5 years of age. Etiological studies of gastroenteritis have shown that rotavirus causes 40–50% of acute diarrhea among infants and children in both developing and developed nations. Numerous epidemiologic studies in the US and the World Health Organization have docu...

Poliomyelitis: its epidemiology and prophylaxis.

IN the history of poliomyelitis we have the story of a disease undergoing a series of transitions with a pattern of evolution which has passed through at least three stages: first, the protracted era of old-fashioned "infantile paralysis," then the terrifying stage of epidemic ccpolio," and finally the present stage, in which paralytic poliomyelitis currently seems to be coming under cont~ol th...

New aspects in prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum (Credé prophylaxis).