ABSTRACT
Between 1961 and 1974 the authors had in their care 260 patients suffering from strongyloidiasis. The present paper deals with the clinical data evaluated from two points of view : the frequency of subjective and objective symptoms in the course of the disease, and the frequency of the groups of symptoms in terms of the clinical form of the disease. The frequency of the symptoms is listed according to the five evolutive stages of the disease (invasion, latency, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and neuropsychical phases). The following clinical forms were recorded : hepato-duodenovesicular, enterocolitic, pulmonary, neuropsychical, polymorphous and asymptomatic. Particularly efficient among the drugs used were gentian violet and dithiazanin (Telmid or Dilombrin).
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Strongyloidiasis/diagnosis , Adult , Dithiazanine/therapeutic use , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Strongyloidiasis/complications , Strongyloidiasis/drug therapyABSTRACT
In August-October 1973 several NAG vibrio strains were isolated for the first time in our country from clinical cases of acute intestinal disturbances. The patients were admitted to hospital being clinically suspect of dysenteric syndrome or alimentary toxiinfection (nausea, vomiting, abdominal colics, tenesms, mucosanguinolent stools, aqeous stools from 4-5 up to 20 in 24 hours, with signs of dehydration). NAG vibrios were isolated from all the cultures in, practically, pure cultures. Epidemiologic survey in the village of B resulted in isolation of the same NAG vibrio strains from the samples collected from the direct contacts and drinking water sources. Therefore, NAG vibrios can unquestionably cause a diarrheic disease and it will be necessary to extend the bacteriologic diangosis also in this direction in all cases of diarrhea of "unknown etiology".