Settembre 2002 - Volume XXI - numero 7
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Hospital “Divina Providéncia” - Golf 2-a, Municipio do Kilamba Klaxi- Luanda, Angola; Dipartimento Pediatrico “Aiuto Materno”, Palermo
Key words: HIV prevalence, Epidemiology, Angola, Mother-newborn transmission
This study was performed on 1000 pregnant women who consecutively referred to two Health Units in a poor district of Luanda (Angola), inhabited for at least 50% by refugees from rural areas because of civil war. It was a serological research aimed at determining the prevalence of 3 sexually transmissible diseases (syphilis, type B hepatitis and HIV infection) with the following goals: a) to help affected women and their children; b) to extend the knowledge on the distribution of these diseases in the Angolan population; c) to evaluate the opportunities for an action aimed at stopping the vertical transmission of AIDS. The prevalence of syphilis was 1.7%; the prevalence of type B hepatitis was 8.5%; and the prevalence of HIV infection was 1.2%. In the light of this last figure, which was much lower than expected, an action aimed at stopping the vertical virus transmission can be realistically conceived.
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UCO Clinica Pediatrica, UO Emato-Oncologia, Istituto di Igiene, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Università di Trieste
Key words: Listeria, Meningoencephalitis, Paediatric oncology
Report on two cases of Listeria-induced meningoencephalitis in a child aged 19 months with pre-B lymphatic leukemia, slightly neutropenic, and a child aged 15 years with T lymphatic leukemia, not neutropenic but lymphopenic. The disease rapidly evolved with hydrocephalus in the first case (derivation) and coma in the second case. Listeria is to be considered amongst the main diagnostic hypotheses in immunodepressed children. Moreover, it should be recalled that it is resistant to cephalosporins and sensitive to penicillin and ampicillin.
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