ABSTRACT
In this work we presented a retrospective analysis of Salmonella infections in 163 children aged between 0-36 months. The children were treated in IV Department of Pediatrics at Medical University of Silesia (Poland) in years 1987-1998. We analyzed: clinical course, dependence between age of the patients and the type of Salmonella, number of infections and their seasonal incidence during 12 years of observation. These relations were compared with the group of 17 children with Salmonella infections treated in the Department of Pediatrics GCZDzM in Katowice in 2001.
Subject(s)
Child Welfare , Salmonella Infections/diagnosis , Salmonella Infections/epidemiology , Child Welfare/statistics & numerical data , Child, Preschool , Diarrhea/epidemiology , Diarrhea/microbiology , Female , Fever/epidemiology , Fever/microbiology , Humans , Incidence , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Occult Blood , Poland/epidemiology , Retrospective Studies , Salmonella Infections/complications , Salmonella Infections/therapy , Time Factors , Vomiting/epidemiology , Vomiting/microbiologyABSTRACT
We examined 72 female Wistar rats which were divided into 6 groups. The animals were administered sodium nitrate (V), vitamin E or both compounds at the same time. In order to estimate the interference of nitrates in the presence of vitamin E with the metabolism of rat's liver, we determined the composition and the amount of glycosoaminoglycans (GAGs). It was stated that the total amount of GAGs increased in livers of all rats. Basing on all fractions of the examined GAGs it was determined that the most significant differences between individual groups appeared in the amount of heparane sulphate (HS). The results obtained confirmed the fact of the changes taking place in the picture of liver GAGs in the process of ageing of the examined animals. The results obtained, however, allowed to state the normalising influence of vitamin E on the quantitative composition of GAGs of rats which drank nitrates.
