abstract：:An impediment to analyzing the effect of nutritional factors on biologic processes or health status in human populations arises from the relatively small dietary differences that exist between individuals in relation to large periodic fluctuations in dietary intake and the imprecision with which diet is normally asses...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hebert JR,Chen Backlund JY,Engle A,Barone J,Biener K

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation is the complex study of experimental infection in pregnant ewes by means of clinical, serological, biological, histological and Electron microscopy methods. Four ewes, pregnant from the 2nd to 5th month, were infected by intravenous (in one case by intraperitoneal) routes with a C....

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Martinov SP,Neikov P,Popov GV

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An overview of the problem of gastrointestinal (GI) helminthiases in Zimbabwe is given in terms of prevalence, distribution, clinical significance of individual parasites and their transmission patterns. Although data on these aspects are incomplete, the available information and the results of studies conducted elsew...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Chandiwana SK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome "Traveller's Diarrhea" (TD) is important for tourists travelling to warm-climate countries. In this study a worldwide survey on the clinical features of enteritis among 1,455 Austrian tourists is reported. The clinical parameters of TD show that this disease exhibits a very uniform clinical course which i...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kollaritsch H

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred forty-one healthy newborns were immunized 24 hours after birth with one dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) of enhanced potency. Following the administration of a second vaccine dose six months later, a considerable proportion of babies responded with neutralizing antibody (NA) to the three poliovirus ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Swartz TA,Handsher R,Stoeckel P,Drucker J,Caudrelier P,Van Wezel AL,Cohen H,Salk D,Salk J

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses to trivalent inactivated whole virus and monovalent subunit influenza vaccines, used in the season 1986-87, were analyzed in elderly residents in nursing homes. Higher levels of induced antibody were found in the group receiving two doses of trivalent vaccine. This suggests that high risk aged patient...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Mancini G,Arangio-Ruiz G,Bianchi B,Diana L,Macchia T,Donatelli I,Castrucci MR,Campitelli L,Ruggieri A

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Dot-ELISA system for the rapid, specific and reliable assessment of a subject's antitetanus immune status. The conditions for Dot-ELISA were selected to give positive reactions only for sera with antitetanus antibody titers equal to or higher than 0.06 I.U./ml, considered to represent protection when usi...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Mastroeni P,Leonardi MS,Gazzara D,Bizzini B

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the relationship between alcohol consumption and arterial pressure in 1,190 subjects of both sexes aged between 18 and 63 years who were examined during the course of a program of preventive medicine organized by Centro Diagnostico Italiano. In 711 subjects who were not requested to alter their usual alcoho...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Periti M,Salvaggio A,Quaglia G,Di Marzio L

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of inhabitants of the Arsi region of Ethiopia prevalence of hepatitis B is around 80% in the age group 20-24. In addition to age, sex and size of family, exposure to tribal practices is a determinant of seropositivity in this group accounting for as much as 20% of the total burden of the infection. Waiting...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Pasquini P,Bisanti L,Soldo L,Palladino P,Rozera C,Frontini E,Miozzo A,Di Gennaro TM,Indi A,Conti S

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption and glycosuria were found to be associated (p less than 0.001) in a population of 6571 salaried employees who underwent a systematic examination. The prevalence of glycosuria was found to range from 1.3% among 2609 non-drinkers to 5% among 816 heavy drinkers (six glasses or more of alcoholic bevera...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Lombrail P,Lang T,Degoulet P,Aime F,Devries C,Fouriaud C,Jacquinet-Salord MC

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a surveillance program on epidemic and/or endemic Shigella strains in Asturias (Spain), their frequency and dispersion in our community, and their R-plasmids. We analyzed initial isolates of Shigella sonnei from two epidemic outbreaks using antibiotic resistance patterns and plasmid profile analysis as ep...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Mendoza MC,Gonzalez AJ,Mendez FJ,Hardisson C

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence rate of IgG and IgA antibodies to Chlamydia was analyzed in 50 women with laparoscopy-verified tubal infertility and in 50 age-matched control women by single serovar (L2) inclusion immunoperoxidase assay (IPA) and by immunoblotting technique (IB). Women with tubal infertility had significantly (p less ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Sarov I,Lunenfeld E,Sarov B,Hanuka N,Rosenzweig R,Potashnik G,Chaim W,Insler V

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we have analyzed several risk factors for developing nosocomial infections at a Surgical Service of the Hospital Clinico Universitario "San Cecilio", based on a retrospective follow-up program designed specifically for this study. Of all patients admitted to the Service from January 1 to June 17, 1987, w...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Delgado-Rodríguez M,Cueto-Espinar A,Rodríguez-Contreras R,Gálvez-Vargas R

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 541 cases of cholera were observed between May 7 and July 19, 1985 among the 9,929 displaced persons present in a refugee camp in Africa. In spite of malnutrition and other diseases affecting this population, only 12 deaths occurred. Antiepidemic measures consisted of preparation of isolation-wards, treatme...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Djeddah C,Miozzo A,Di Gennaro M,Rosmini F,Martino P,Pasquini P

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human anthrax vaccines currently licensed in the United States and Western Europe consist of alum-precipitated or aluminum hydroxide-adsorbed supernatant material from fermentor cultures of toxigenic, nonencapsulated strains of Bacillus anthracis. These vaccines have several drawbacks, including the need for frequent ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ivins BE,Welkos SL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for the rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases have become increasingly common in the last decade. The impetus for the development of such techniques has stemmed from the need to provide clinically relevant information without the length of time and complexity inherent to traditional cultivation methods. This ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Miotti PG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairs of cases of Boutonneuse Fever (BF) occurred in three families. The illness appeared almost simultaneously in both members of each family, but was generally more serious in one as judged by clinical and laboratory parameters. The possibility of a "bed rickettsiosis", that is reactivation of rickettsiae by the blo...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Tringali G,Mansueto S,Barba G,Occhino C,Farinella E,Vitale G,Walker DH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the shift in the rates and levels of antibody to hepatitis A virus, 567 children in 20 isolated groups of five day-care centers were observed over a period of 8 months during which the seasonal rise in hepatitis A morbidity occurs. Increases in the proportion of seropositive ranging from 5 to 3...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Prikazchikov SA,Balayan MS

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of molecular genetic approaches with oral mutans streptococci has resulted in the isolation of several genes which may be involved in the cariogenicity of these organisms. Among these are genes coding for cell surface proteins, sucrose metabolizing enzymes, and glycosyltransferase activities. The isola...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas cepacia has occasionally been identified as an epidemic and endemic nosocomial pathogen. In outbreaks, usually one clinical site predominates but many may be involved. Detailed investigations have usually implicated a contaminated liquid reservoir or moist environmental surface as the source. Liquid source...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Martone WJ,Tablan OC,Jarvis WR

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data regarding 11,541 cases of school accidents (from kindergarten to senior high school) that required hospital attention for treatment were examined. The information was obtained from the records of the "School Medicine Service of the City of Milan", and covered five school years (from 1980-81 to 1984-85). The surve...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Pagano A,Cabrini E,Anelli M,Bernuzzi S,Lopiccoli S,Fischer P

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites adhere to and lyse target cells are reviewed from the perspective of pathogenesis. Adherence via the galactose and N-acetyl-galactosamine inhibitable amebic lectin and possible additional amebic adhesin molecules is followed by target cell death. Inhibition of...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Petri WA Jr,Ravdin JI

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a material of 577 infants born of epileptic women treated with anticonvulsants in monotherapy during early pregnancy and collected from France, Italy, and Sweden. The incidence of major malformations is increased compared with the general population but no definite difference in risk can be demonstrated be...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Bertollini R,Källen B,Mastroiacovo P,Robert E

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen cases of presumptive poliomyelitis occurring in Italy between 1981-85 were studied in order to differentiate between paralysis caused by poliovirus and that of different etiology. Out of seven confirmed cases three were "temporally associated with vaccination". Three aspects are discussed: the need for a caref...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Novello F,Lombardi F,Amato C,Santoro R,Fiore L,Grandolfo ME,Pasquini P

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiological study was performed on HTLV-III, T. pallidum, C. trachomatis and Hepatitis B virus (HBV), in Butare, Rwanda, among 33 female prostitutes, 25 male customers of prostitutes, and 60 male and female controls. As compared with female controls the prostitutes had a higher prevalence of antibodies to HT...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Van de Perre P,Clumeck N,Steens M,Zissis G,Caraël M,Lagasse R,De Wit S,Lafontaine T,De Mol P,Butzler JP

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field trials were conducted using an inactivated rotavirus vaccine for prevention of calf neonatal diarrhea. For the trials, 458 pregnant cows from 26 herds were involved. In each herd, cows which had been inseminated within a period of two months were selected and randomly subdivided in two groups. Cows in one group ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Castrucci G,Frigeri F,Angelillo V,Ferrari M,Cilli V,Aldrovandi V

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to find an indicator for use in studies of the epidemiological impact of drug abuse in California in the late 1960s, we recognized that, for comparative analyses, cause specific mortality was less attractive than total mortality of the population group principally affected, young adults. This paper examin...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Goldsmith JR

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and twenty seven idiopathic peripheral facial palsy (IPFP) patients admitted to the Otolaryngology Department of the Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel between 1978 and 1982 were characterized and analyzed by age, sex and season of illness. An average annual incidence rate of 33.6 patients per 100,0...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Tovi F,Hadar T,Sidi J,Sarov I,Sarov B

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peritoneal macrophages from mice on a lipidic diet have shown an increase of surface hydrophobicity of cytoplasmatic membrane. This fact is correlated with a decrease of the phagocytic index and with an impairment of Salmonella typhimurium. ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Romano Carratelli C,Nuzzo I,Folgore A,Galdiero F

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a computer simulation for a series of births subject to various congenital malformations, the surveillance performance of the Multicommunity Sets Technique (MST) was compared to that of the Cumulative Sum Technique (CUSUM). Increases in malformation frequencies were simulated in (i) 6 out of 6 centres and (ii) o...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Barbujani G,Ceccherini I,Russo A

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The titres of antibody to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) were found to fall rapidly during 3-4 years after hepatitis A and more slowly thereafter, though they never reached undetectable levels in at least 23 years. The levels of anti-HAV in convalescents after overt hepatitis A were found to be significantly much higher...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Prikazchikov SA,Balayan MS

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Markers of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection have been detected all over the five continents. Geographical prevalence varied heavily: HDV infection is very rare in Far East Asia, but extremely frequent in Arabian countries, in Romania and in certain Indian populations of South America. In Europe and in the USA the...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ponzetto A,Forzani B,Parravicini PP,Hele C,Zanetti A,Rizzetto M

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an epidemiologic teaching exercise, we studied coronary risk factors in two consecutive classes of Jerusalem medical students (n = 124) and calculated a summary coronary risk score for each student. Men were at higher risk than women because of greater body mass, higher blood pressure and more cigarette smo...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Slater PE,Belmaker E,Simchen E,Rudensky B,Ever-Hadani P,Harlap S

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper studies prostate cancer mortality in Italy from 1950-1979 to evaluate its importance in relation to total cancers, examine the time trend for forecasting future mortality trends, and makes an attempt to interpretate mortality by analyzing demographic and risk factors. In the Authors' opinion findings from c...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： La Rosa F,Cresci A,Orpianesi C,Saltalamacchia G

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of serologic evidence of hepatitis B virus infection in various populations in Greece was examined to provide data for formulating cost-effective strategies for prevaccination screening. Markers were detected in 17.5% of 320 healthy persons, 73.3% of 273 multiply transfused patients and 61.0% of 146 hae...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Papaevangelou G,Roumeliotou-Karayannis A,Tassopoulos N,Richardson SC,Stathopoulou P,Papadoyannakis N,Tsantoulis N,Politi K,Tassiopoulou A

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of saprophytic moulds in indoor environments and their potential hazards to human health are discussed. In addition to mesophilic species, xerophilic moulds appear to be common, often developing together with mites. Allergic and non-allergic symptoms are reported when patients are exposed to moulds in h...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Samson RA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00