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Humanos , Proteínas de Vegetais Comestíveis , Fabaceae , Plantas Comestíveis , Ásia , Nova GuinéRESUMO
Strains of dengue-2 and dengue-3 viruses of diverse geographic origins including southeast Asia, the Caribbean region, and Tahati were compared by plaque-reduction neutralisation tests with hyperimmune-mouse asctic fluids and human convalescent sera. The dengue-2 strains all appeared similar. The dengue-3 strains from the Caribbean and from Tahiti were similar to each other and differed significantly from the southeast Asian strains. A subtype of dengue-3 was defined (AU)
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Humanos , Camundongos , 21003 , Vírus da Dengue/imunologia , Vírus da Dengue/classificação , Soros Imunes , Jamaica , Testes de Neutralização , Nova Guiné , Nigéria , Ilhas do Pacífico , Filipinas , Porto Rico , Tailândia , Trinidad e TobagoRESUMO
A survey on New Caledonia confirmed the occurrence of a previously reported syndrome of spastic paralysis among leprosy patients. Of 18 patients recorded as having frank spastic paraplegia, seven were examined neurologically, as well as 51 other patients with leprosy but not spastic paralysis, and 23 patients with tuberculosis. Significant hyperreflexia was fairly common among both Melanesian and European leprosy patients, but was totally absent among tuberculosis patients. This syndrome was clinically unrelated to foci of neurologic disease previously reported in the Pacific Basin on Guam, the Kii Peninsula of Japan, and New Guinea. It is probably more closely related to diseases reported in other parts of the world that are generally regarded as nutritional or toxic in origin. The syndrome is possibly related to sulfone treatment of leprosy, although this has not been reported in other areas of the world where sulfones are used in the treatment of leprosy.(AU)
