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BACKGROUND: Several agents are able to produce lymphocytic meningitis, but sometimes it's not possible their identification. The viruses are the etiological agents more frequently found, especially enteroviruses, mumps virus and herpes simplex virus, with different epidemiological patterns depending on time and geographic location. Most of the infections caused by enteroviruses are asymptomatics. In general the viral meningitis have a good prognostic with an acute benign course and serious signs of neurological affectation are infrequent. From 1991 it has been observed an increase of nonpolio enteroviral meningitis outbreaks in our Country. Echovirus-4 was isolated in most of the outbreaks notified during that year. Echovirus-9 was not isolated in any of them. METHODS: We describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of a lymphocytic meningitis outbreak that took place from June to July of 1993 in Burgos. RESULTS: Forty-eight patients, most of them children, were hospitalized with fever, headache, vomits and stiff neck with an increase in the total cell count in cerebospinal fluid (CSF). Echovirus-9 was isolated from fecal samples in eight patients. CONCLUSIONS: The etiology was attributed to Echovirus-9 because of microbiologic and epidemiologic findings. The incubation period can fluctuate between four an five days and fecal-oral transmission is the most probable mechanism.
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Surtos de Doenças , Echovirus 9 , Infecções por Echovirus/epidemiologia , Meningite Viral/epidemiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Meningite Viral/virologia , EspanhaRESUMO
This report describes an azoospermic male carrying a Y/autosome translocation. The patient had a 46,X,t(Y;10)(q12;p13) chromosome complement in a lymphocyte culture. The cytogenetic study of this patient is described, together with testicular histology, spermiogram, hormone levels, and clinical history.
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Cromossomos Humanos 6-12 e X , Oligospermia/genética , Cromossomos Sexuais , Translocação Genética , Cromossomo Y , Adulto , Bandeamento Cromossômico , Humanos , Masculino , Fenótipo , Testículo/anatomia & histologiaRESUMO
A dysmorphic female born with partial trisomy of the proximal segment of the long arm of chromosome 14 had 47 chromosomes. The extra one was acrocentric, smaller than the D group, and bigger than the G-chromosome group. By GTG banding it was identified as a deleted chromosome 14, the karyotype being 47,XX,+del 14(q24). Chromosome analysis of the parents was normal.
