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Chairman & Editor-in-Chief:
Dariush D. Farhud, MD, Ph.D., MG.
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Vol 4 No 2 (1975)
Articles
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Bacteriologic, parasitic, fungal and viral investigation of stools of 268 sick and 105 healthy infants and children during a two-year period from March 1970, through March 1972, revealed that: Shigella and Salmonella are still the major causes of infantile endemic diarrhea in Tehran. Enteropathogenic bacteria were isolated from 26.86% of sick vs 7.61% healthy children. Salmonella Typhimurium was found to be the most common enterobacterial pathogen in young sick children of the low social class, whereas in the sick children of high class, Shigella was the most prevalent organism and Shigella sonnei the predominant serotype. Cases of diarrhea due to EPEC and Salmonella other than Sal. Typhimurium occurred mainly in the high socioeconomic class in this age group.
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The immunosuppressive effect of antimacrophage serum (AMS) on the primary immune response of mice to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was studied. AMS, given before a small dose of antigen, abrogated the immune response. Transplantation of normal, galss-adherent macrophages enabled AMS-treated animals to respond to SRBC, while administration of lymph node lymphocytes did not reveres AMS - induced immunosuppression significantly.
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Clinical and laboratory findings of 24 patients with Kala-Azar are presented here from our survey. Kala-Azar is such more prevalent than the number of diagnosed cases might suggest and most of them die because of the lack of medical care available locally. Malnutrition, poor hygiene and lack of education are important factors in the high mortality rate from this infection.
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The results of 10 year clinico - pathologic study about female genital tuberculosis in Isfahan are reported. The main aims of this investigation were to study and review the tuberculosis of female genital tract to evaluate the influence of treatment and above all, to attempt to gain a better insight into the relation of infertility to this disease. In this study the following points have been taken into consideration: age incidence, previous health, presence of absence of other forms of tuberculosis, principle symptoms, bacteriologic and histological findings, the frequency of unsuspected endometrial tuberculosis, cases treated medically and surgically, and conception rate following treatment. The diagnostic procedures used in detection of these cases included: endometrial curettage biopsy, bacteriologic and histopathology examination of tissues removed from female genital organs, and laparotomy.
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A survey was carried out in the summer of 1972 in east Azerbaijan, northwest Iran, to determine the prevalence of cardiovascular disease. ECG tracings were prepared from 198 women and 178 men aged 40-60. Only 45% of the tracings were completely normal. Q/QS abnormalities were found in 4.7% of tracings, left axis deviation in 4% tall R wave in 37%, ST depression in 3.9% of men and 14.1% of women and T wave inversion in 2.2% of men and 11.6% of women. Further studies are recommended to explain this high prevalence of ST depression and T wave inversion in the women of this area.
