ABSTRACT
Acute respiratory infections are common childhood illnesses. Most are mild and self-limiting. Five percent are lower respiratory tract diseases and are potentially serious. A prospective study was conducted to ascertain the etiology of community-acquired severe lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in hospital based patients. Mycoplasma was the most frequently identified agent (33%). This was followed by viruses (28%) and bacteria (15%). Twenty-four percent of children had no identified causative agent.
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Acute Disease , Age Factors , Agglutination Tests , Bacteria/isolation & purification , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Hospitalization , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Mycoplasma pneumoniae/isolation & purification , Prospective Studies , Respiratory Tract Infections/epidemiology , Smoking/adverse effects , Viruses/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Three hundred eligible patients with carcinoma of the cervix out of a total of 560, registered between July 1981 and June 1983 were randomized into receiving either radiotherapy alone or radiotherapy plus weekly injection of bleomycin 15 mg and mitomycin C4 mg. To date (22 Feb. 1985) patients have been evaluated for response to therapy at 3 months and 1 year from completion of treatment. Although both at 3 months and 1 year the combined modality treatment appears to be marginally better (68% and 71% at 3 months, 56% and 63% at 1 year), the long term results remain uncertain at present. Treatment by the addition of chemotherapy to radiation was however well tolerated with a few complications.