Infectious Diseases Of Infancy Research Articles

Clinical studies of effectiveness of ceftezole (Falomesin 'Chugai') on the infectious disease in infancy and childhood (author's transl)

Clinical studies of the effectiveness of ceftezole (Falomesin 'Chugai') were performed on 50 cases of infants and children with infectious disease during November 1978 and February 1979. Effective results were obtained in 86% of subjects with remarkable effect especially in the group of acute upper respiratory disease. No side effect was detected in our study while elevated mean value of platelet count was observed after medication.

Chemotherapy of Infectious Diseases in Infancy and Childhood

Chemotherapy of Infectious Diseases in Infancy and Childhood

THE BACTERIOLOGY AND SEROTHERAPY OF MEASLES

The status of measles among the infectious diseases of infancy and childhood appears to have changed within the last twenty-five years, primarily owing to the increasing percentage of mortality as compared with that of other acute diseases, notably diphtheria and scarlet fever. The 10,000 annual deaths from measles and its complications, as recorded in the registered area of the United States, allow no optimism either on the part of the laity or on the part of the medical profession. Debre and Joannon 1 reported that during the first decade of the present century, measles occupied the foremost place in the causes of child mortality, claiming, as it actually did, a formidable aggregate of about 1,000,000 juvenile victims in the principal countries of Europe. To combat the ravages of this disease, many able minds of Europe and America have long been mobilized to work out a means of practical strategy. It