Scedosporium prolificans infection was analyzed in 18 patients from whom the fungus was isolated during the period 1990-1999. Of these 18 patients, 12 had some predisposing factor and either unconfirmed infection or colonization, and 6 patients had confirmed disseminated infection: 4 patients with leukemia died, 1 patient with breast cancer who underwent autologous bone marrow transplantation survived, and 1 patient with advanced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome died, although the fungal infection did not seem to affect his clinical symptoms.
Over a 14-year period (1984–97) the presence of rotavirus in stool samples from children under
15 years with acute gastroenteritis was studied by enzymoimmunoanalysis. Serotyping (G1–G4)
was performed using monoclonal antibodies. A total of 17348 children under 15 were
investigated. Rotavirus was detected in 3637 (21·0%) specimens, 74·6% of which were from
children younger than 2 years old. G1 and G4 were the most frequent serotypes. In 1991–7,
the minimum incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children under 4 years of age was 21·7
cases/1000 children/year. By the age of 5 years, at least 1 out of 11·3 children and probably 1
out of every 5–6 children in this area had experienced an episode of rotavirus gastroenteritis
that required medical care. In the 1984–90 period a clear seasonality was not observed but in
the second period of the study (1991–7), seasonality was marked, with peak activity in winter.
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