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Bronchitis/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Mycoplasma/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Antibodies, Bacterial/analysis , Bronchitis/microbiology , Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Infant , Middle Aged , Mycoplasma pneumoniae/isolation & purification , Pneumonia, Mycoplasma/diagnosis , Romania , SeasonsABSTRACT
At the beginning of the 1977--1978 schoolyear 10% standard gammaglobulin (0.03 ml/kg body weight) was administered to 974 preschool children and 530 schoolchildren. Representative groups of children were tested serologically and virologically before gammaglobulin administration and 3 months afterwards. No statistically significant reductions of viral hepatitis morbidity were recorded in the protected groups as against controls.
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Hepatitis, Viral, Human/prevention & control , gamma-Globulins/therapeutic use , Child , Child, Preschool , Hepatitis B Antigens/analysis , Hepatitis, Viral, Human/epidemiology , Hepatitis, Viral, Human/immunology , HumansSubject(s)
Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors/complications , Diarrhea, Infantile/etiology , Disaccharides/metabolism , Child, Preschool , Chronic Disease , Diarrhea, Infantile/diet therapy , Diarrhea, Infantile/metabolism , Diarrhea, Infantile/pathology , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Intestine, Small/pathologyABSTRACT
The results of an epidemiological and laboratory investigation on 242 adults and children, who had come in contact with patients suffering from viral hepatitis (in the family or outside it), showed the importance of family contact and the role of routes of transmission other than the parenteral and transfusional ones in viral hepatitis with positive HB antigen. Attention is likewise drawn to the importance of the laboratory tests (classical enzymatic tests and immunoelectrodiffusion) in the detection of epidemogenic sources, represented by the subclinical forms of infection.
