Pregnancy‐induced Leucocytosis in Africans, Asians and Europeans

Ezeilo, G C; Wacha, D.S.O.

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1977.tb12526.x

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“…A. Beduins 47 healthy black Arabs (19 males, 28 females) ranging in age from 16 to 54 yr, and 53 semitic Arabs (25 studied. They were chosen at random from their villages.…”

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Benign familial leukopenia and neutropenia in different ethnic groups

Shoenfeld

Alkan

Asaly

et al. 1988

European J of Haematology

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Benign hereditary leukopenia‐neutropenia has been reported in several ethnic groups, including Yemenite Jews, Blacks of South African extraction, West Indians and Arab Jordanians. The subjects with BFL were shown not to have an increased incidence of infections, and their response to infection did not differ from subjects having normal white blood cell counts. This study entails the report of two additional unrelated ethnic groups with familial neutropenia — Black Beduin and Falashah Jews. The familial nature of the phenomenon was confirmed. The suggested mechanism of this type of neutropenia is a defect in release of mature WBC from the bone marrow to the peripheral circulation. All ethnic groups thus far reported have tanned or dark skin. The significance of this common feature has still to be elucidated.

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“…A. Beduins 47 healthy black Arabs (19 males, 28 females) ranging in age from 16 to 54 yr, and 53 semitic Arabs (25 studied. They were chosen at random from their villages.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Benign familial leukopenia and neutropenia in different ethnic groups

Shoenfeld

Alkan

Asaly

et al. 1988

European J of Haematology

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Reference values and predictors of white blood cell subset counts: a cross-sectional study among HIV seronegative pregnant women in Zimbabwe

Gomo

Vennervald

Ndhlovu

et al. 2003

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductiv

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Infectious oral necrosis (cancrum oris) in Nigerian children: a review

Enwonwu

1985

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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The devastating orofacial gangrenous disease known as cancrum oris (noma) is still commonly seen in underprivileged Nigerian children. These children are usually victims of such stressors as chronic malnutrition, numerous endemic communicable diseases and severe adverse physical conditions which may lead to depletion of their adaptive resources or produce physiological maladaptation to additional stressors. Measles is the most common infection preceding the development of noma in Nigerian children. Acquired immunodeficiency as well as the impaired endocrine balance of the chronically malnourished permits, for example, widespread infection with the measles virus. Anergy resulting from the combination of malnutrition and measles virus infection promotes selective overgrowth and invasion by an infective consortium consisting of anaerobic organisms and other species capable of elaborating necessary growth factors for the former. Because of the pre-existing depletion of adaptive physiologic resources in the malnourished child, the infection is not readily contained locally as necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis but instead spreads rapidly to the next naturally occurring anatomical barriers. This is then followed by continuing necrosis and possible sequestration as exemplified by noma.

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Pregnancy‐induced Leucocytosis in Africans, Asians and Europeans

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Benign familial leukopenia and neutropenia in different ethnic groups

Benign familial leukopenia and neutropenia in different ethnic groups

Reference values and predictors of white blood cell subset counts: a cross-sectional study among HIV seronegative pregnant women in Zimbabwe

Infectious oral necrosis (cancrum oris) in Nigerian children: a review

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