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pISSN: 0044-6025
eISSN: 1735-9694
Editor-in-Chief:
Ahmadreza Dehpour, PharmD, PhD
This journal is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Vol XVIII, No 3-4 (1975)
Articles
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Seventy-five meconium samples were examined for the presence of CI. difficile: 3 strains were isola ted. Additionally 45 labora tory animal faeces specimens were tested for the same purpose, a further 2 cases were isolated. These five suspicious strains were identified as CI. difficile acco rding to the tests mentioned in the previous paragraphs. The organisms . isolated here showed the same characteristics as five of the strains received and also as the organisms isolated from the inoculated animals with the crude cultures of CI. difficile. These organisms were variable in size, roughly 2-9 XO.3-0. 8u, Gram positive rods, moti le, capsulated, fl agellated, most probably peritrichous, possessing non-bulging spores located terminally or msubterminally, free spores were-rarely detectable. Cell arrangements : singly or in pairs and occasionally in short chains. On longer incubation the organisms slightly shifted to become Gram variable and longer in size. Colonies on ordinary aga r and solid blood agar appeared to be punctiform and rough. On the other hand the colony appearance on the rest of the solid media which are mentioned previously a re as fo llows: 1-3 mm in diameter, greenish, smooth, non-haemolytic, entire some showing slight irregularities of their edges. Colonies slightly raised, butyrous and semi opaque to opaque. This organism does not liquify the serum of Loeffler medium and also does not cause any changes of this medium. The metachromatic granules are readily seen by Albert's staining. Neither proteolytic nor lipolytic activi ties are possessed by this organ ism. Sensitivity to antibiotics showed the same pattern as mentioned about the strains received. H?S production was positive after 48 hours. All the strains reduce nitrates. Most of the strains produce Indole and none liquify gelatin and also none produce any changes in Litmus Milk medium. The agglutinating serum prepared in rabbits as mentioned before were tested against heated and formolised suspensions of the strains isolated; serum produced against strain A3 agglutinated to some extent all the strains tested. The 0 I and EI were agglutinated to a greater degree than the homologous strain. The strains 02 and 03 were flocculated equally as the homologous strain. Furthermore E2 strain was also agglutinated at the I in 640 serum dilution. An effective antiserum was produced in rabbits by injecting with CI. difficile toxoid.
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During the epidemiological research of zoonoses, the authors have studied the rabies of wild animals : fox. For the scro lo-uical tests. the blood . was taken by heart puncture of foxes. 193 specimens were tested and 26 (13. 5%) o r the foxes had neut ralizing antibody in their blood. This study confirms that during the rabies epizooty. the Vulpin population, may contract a non-fatal disease and produce the neutralizing antibody. Thus, the fox has a real place in the epidemiology of rabies in Iran.
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A la sui te des etudes effectuees par nous-merne (8), nous rapportons ici, les resultats scrologiques, des travaux acheves dans Ie but d'enrichir et de completer les donnees precedentcs, Le present travail, ainsi que notre etude prcliminairc, ont etc realises dans la meme region, ccntree par le village d'AGH BOULAGH MORCHED, dans Ie Kurdistan, i186 Km au Nord-Ouest de HAMADAN (Ca rte N° I ). Le role primordial du Renard, dans Ie processus de la Rage naturelle a deja fait l'objet de plusieurs articles (4), (5), (7), (17), (14), Cependant l'existence chez les animaux sauvages danticorps antirabiques n'est que rarement mentionnee dans ccs travaux. Les donnees experimentales ne peuvent pas toujours expliquer ce qui se passe dans les conditions naturelles de l'enzootie rabique, au point de vue de la reponse serologique chez Ie renard. C'est pourquoi nous nous sommes attaches a completer la recherche d'anticorps neutralisants antirabiques, chez Ie renard, dans son milieu nature! -
Geophagia characterized by, severe, anaemia, dwarfism, hypogonadism • and hepatosplenomegaly is sometimes seen in young patients (and children) in Iran. 2) Haematological aspects of the syndrome are those of, severe, iron defi-crency anaemia3) Gastric biopsies and histological findings revealed superfi cial or atrophic gastritis showing some resemblance to those seen in pernicious anaemia. 4) Haematological features, anaemia ana many of the clinical signs of the syndrome were improved after appropriate iron therapy. 5) Histological changes of gastric mucosa improved, in 5 patients, 6 months after correction of the anaemia.
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I) A case of bilateral stenosis of the internal carotid artery with aneurysm
of basilar trunk is reported.
2) Via femoral angiography confirmed the diagnosis which is strongly
recommended in diagnosing such cases.
3) No surgica l treatment is considered.
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Report of 850 cases of foreign bodies in the air and food passages is presented. The incidence of the accident was more in children between the age of 1-6 years than others. No sex difference was noted for the incidence of the accident The presence of leech as a foreign body in this report is of interest General anesthesia is recommended in the case that foreign bodies are present in the air way of children. In these cases bronchoscopy, with oxygenation by insuflation in brochoscope or Ventury 50 or other similar techniques is recommended.
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During 1972 a study was undertaken in Roozbeh Mental Hospital of Tehran University to investigate the prevalence of phobias among the patients suffering from one type or another ofmental disorders. It was found that about 10 percent of the total patients visited in the hospital were suffering from phobia. Moreover, darkness, corpse, crowd, pet animals, fear from cancer and syphilis accounted for 79%of the most common phobias, among the 655 recorded cases.
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15 cases of acute renal failure follow ing ingestion of bichloride of mercury were studied at Pahlavi medical center, university of Teheran, between
196? and 1972. All the patients admitted suicide attempts. All had oliguria and uremia except one, in whom oliguria was moderate without azotemia. There were four deaths among the 15 patients, tgastrointestinal hernorrage; secondery infection and the prolonged acute uremia probably were the cause of death in another one. Early administration of B. A. L. and early frequent hemodialysis helps to support the patient through the period of oliguria and possibly to remove the mercury B. A. L. Complex. Although the mortality of mercury intoxication has decreased, gast rointestinal hemorrages and secondery infections make its prognosis still unfavorable.hree of them with.
