We report here on an 11-year-old child with a pustulovesicular eruption on her whole body, including her palms, soles and oral mucosa, and this was accompanied with fever. A serologic test was positive for IgM varicella zoster antibody and coxsackievirus A16 antibody. The histopathologic examination from the palm revealed intraepidermal pustules that showed neither inclusion bodies nor multinuc...

BACKGROUND Different serological tests are used in serologic diagnosis of brucellosis. The most widely used of these are Standard Tube Agglutination and Coombs anti-brucella tests. Whereas ELISA Ig M and Ig G tests have been in use for a long time, immuncapture agglutination test has been recently introduced and used in serological diagnosis. The aim of this study was to compare diagnostic valu...

The results of seven serologic tests for diagnosis of human brucellosis were evaluated. The titrated Rose Bengal test, microagglutination test, microtiter-adapted Coombs test, and immunocapture-agglutination test (Brucellacapt) were positive for all sera from patients with acute brucellosis. The immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, and IgA commercial enzyme immunoassays (ELISAs) failed to show specific...

For many years it has been known that leprosy patients are prone to give positive reactions in the serologic tests for syphil is (STS) in common use. Badger (1) reviewed the literature on the subject up to 193 1. Since that time, several other studies have been made (2-5, 10, 12, 13, 15). almost all of them showing that reactions occur frequenty in STS's in the sera of patients with leprosy. so...

Editorial Acute varicella (chicken pox) is one of the most highly contagious viral illnesses. The infection occurs commonly in childhood, and approximately 95 % of individuals are immune by the time they reach childbearing age. Varicella occurs in fewer than 1:1,000 pregnancies each year. Although it is a relatively mild illness in children, varicella may cause severe complications in pregnant ...

From 1989 to 1998, the incidence of pertussis increased in Massachusetts adolescents and adults, reaching 71 and 5 per 100,000, respectively, by 1998, whereas the incidence in children remained stable. By 1998, 92% of cases occurred in adolescents and adults. Nationally, in contrast, adolescents and adults had incidences of only 5 and 0.8 per 100,000, respectively, and accounted for 47% of case...