[The clinical and epidemiological aspects of a focus of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis]. / Considérations cliniques et épidémiologiques sur un foyer de kératoconjonctivite épidémique.

An outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis was followed from October 5 to November 14, 1987, in a Transylvania city, from clinical, epidemiological and virological points of view. Fixation of complement and seroneutralization was used in view of identification of the virus strains isolated from the outbreak.

Immunochemical aspects of cerebrospinal fluid immunoglobulins in patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

Unconcentrated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 50 patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) were investigated by rocket immunoelectrophoresis (RIE) against anti-human IgG sera. Two patterns of immune precipitates were observed: precipitates with exclusively cathodal and precipitates with bipolar extension. Hemagglutination-inhibition tests against measles virus antigen were performed after absorption of the CSF samples with Protein A-containing Staphylococcus aureus and treatment with 2-mercaptoethanol. The results point to different pathological significances of the precipitation line anomalies revealed by RIE, that might be relevant for some of the patients investigated.