ABSTRACT
Since July 1987 to June 1988, out of a total of 2,009 stool examinations performed at a private laboratory, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, we could identify Blastocystis hominis in 206 of them, using the methods of wet preparation with S.S.F., Iugol and Quensel. Clinical information was obtained in 73 patients. The group more affected was the one older than 12 years of age. We suggest the investigation and to report B. hominis in the feces test, because in presence of clinic manifestations and absence of other enteropathogenic can be the responsible.
Subject(s)
Blastocystis Infections/epidemiology , Blastocystis hominis , Adolescent , Animals , Blastocystis Infections/complications , Child , Child, Preschool , Diarrhea/parasitology , Diarrhea, Infantile/parasitology , Feces/parasitology , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Retrospective Studies , Venezuela/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Through Scott's tubes, intraventricular administration of amynoglucoside antibiotics was given to two groups of patients: a) ten children with purulent meningitis and ventricular ependymitis due to gram - negative germs without malformation of the central nervous system (CNS) and b) sixteen children with ventricular ependymitis and malformation of the CNS. The duration of treatment was three weeks and no deaths issued in the first group. In the second group, there were four therapeutic failures related with the existence of encephalodysplasia or intraventricular wailing. The results described are very encouraging and allow to foresee a marked drop in the lethality of ventricular ependymitis.
Subject(s)
Ependyma/microbiology , Gentamicins/administration & dosage , Meningitis/drug therapy , Suppuration/drug therapy , Cerebral Ventricles/abnormalities , Child, Preschool , Enterobacteriaceae/isolation & purification , Ependyma/abnormalities , Humans , Injections, Intraventricular/methods , Meningitis/microbiologyABSTRACT
The case was that of an infant with congenital hydrocephalus who developed subdural empyema. The most outstanding items were, the age of the patient (18 months), the identification of Salmonella typhimurium, a germ rarely described responsible for this pathology, the absence of anacrobe germs and the possible hematogenous dissemination from the digestive tract when the port of entry usually associated is the infection of the paranasal sinuses. The most useful method for study was the computerized axial tomography.
