OBJECTIVE To study the clinical effects and immunologic mechanism of infant capillary bronchitis secondary bronchial asthma treated with bacterial lysates (Broncho-Vaxom OM-85BV). PATIENTS AND METHODS Between February 2013 and February 2014, 136 infant capillary bronchitis secondary bronchial asthma cases were chosen. This research was approved by Ethics Committee in our hospital and obtained...

* See CMO's Report to the Ministry of Health (1960). Table I shows the death rate per 1,000 live births for infants aged under one year, and the death rates per 1,000 living for those between 1 and 5 years of age for the years 1955 to 1963, with the corresponding figures for England and Wales for 1959. The Table shows that in Antigua the neonatal mortality is moderately high. The figure is lowe...

The patient, J. McH., a girl aged eleven years, the first-born in the family, who had previously been healthy, was admitted on 11.2.42 with a history of illness of a few days' duration beginning abruptly with bilious vomiting and green diarrhoea, followed by severe abdominal pain and after a short interval by a convulsion. The child lapsed into coma and was unconscious on admission, with interm...

We report on the rare and surgical treatment of a senile patient of infected intralobar pulmonary sequestration. A 56-year-old male who had complained of headache, vomiting, cough, sputum production, and high fever was admitted to our hospital. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed an infected intralobar pulmonary sequestration as an 8x6 cm cystic mass with multiple air-fluid cavities in the le...

Immunopathological events are key for the development of enzootic pneumonia (EP), which is macroscopically observed as cranioventral pulmonary consolidation (CVPC). This study aimed to investigate the putative association between the humoral immune response against Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyopneumoniae) and prevalence and extension of CVPC in 1) experimentally infected pigs, 2) slaughtered...

It is urgent to ascertain the etiological agent of the swine atrophic rhinitis (AR) for the diagnosis and treatment of this disease. Therefore, many etiological theories have been offered up to the present day, and after all, it has been elucidated that AR is a transmissible disease of the swine: Since 1963, Switzer and his co-workers' >.2 >>,3> have presented the agency theory of Alealiyenes (...

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of three different inoculation routes into mycoplasmal pneumonia (MP) in pigs challenged with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyopneumoniae). Thirty six-week-old M. hyopneumoniae seronegative piglets were randomly assigned to four groups: three challenged groups with experimentally inoculated pigs by either the endotracheal (ET; n = 8), intranasal...