Estudio viral y parasitario en personal de un consultorio periferico. / Viral and parasitological study among personnel of a peripheric policlinic

Los autores-motivados por varios casos de embarazos patologicos afectaron a algunas funcionarias de uno de los Consultorios Perifericos investigaron las causas eventuales de estas anomalias a traves del analisis de las tasas de anticuerpos contra rubeola, citomegalovirus, virus herpes simple, toxoplasmosis y chagas, de todos los funcionarios (82 personas). Las tasas registradas en los distintos rubros antes senalados permiten concluir, que los resultados se encuadran dentro del promedio normal de la poblacion chilena y que en los cuatro casos de anomalias obstetricas les causas probables fueron rubeola (2), toxoplasmosis (1) y cuerpo extrano (1)

[Thrombocytopenic purpura of the young infant caused by perinatal infection by cytomegaloviruses]. / Púrpura trombocitopénica del lactante menor causada por la infección perinatal por citomegalovirus.

Two cases of idiopathic trombocytopenic purpura, in infants 37 and 42 days old, and one case of atypical congenital cytomegaloviral disease are presented, the latter proved at necropsy. Cytomegalic inclusion cells are found in urine in both cases of purpura with hepatosplenomegaly and mononucleosis syndrome. In one of the cases, cytomegalovirus cultures are positive in urine and blood. The hemorrhagic syndrome is mild and recuperation is achieved in less than thirty days, without relapse. The use of corticosteroids is not recommended. With these two new cases, thirteen similar clinical observation of thrombocytopenic purpura in infants, six of them in 1977, are completed. Thus, a new entity is added to the growing list of clinical manifestations caused by human CMV infection.