Significance of the Complement-fixation Test in Diagnosis of Amoebiasis in an endemic area

Abstract

Radiation-induced Neuropathy-Stoll and Andrews MEDICAL SJURNAL 837high-dose megavoltage x-ray technique. The clinical nature of the damage has been assessed and an attempt made to establish the site of damage.Of the patients receiving 6,300 rads peak dose in 25 to 26 days neurological symptoms were complained of by 73%, and of the group receiving 5,775 rads peak dose by 15%. In the higher-dose group the majority of patients with symptoms had abnormal neurological signs.Pathological data in two cases are given and mention is made of factors other than radiation which may have contributed to the nerve damage noted. It is concluded that high-dose, smallfield megavoltage irradiation following radical surgery leads to delayed damage to the brachial plexus, the incidence being related to the level of dosage. Our past experience with other techniques has been analysed for purposes of comparison.

Diagnostic value of liver function tests andEntamoeba histolyticaantibody studies in East Africans

“…In addition there have been a number of papers on the serological diagnosis of amoebiasis, using complement-fixation (Izar, 1914;Craig, 1939;Kenney, 1952;Kasliwal, Kenney, Gupta, Sethi, Tatz, and Illes, 1966), indirect haemagglutination (Kessel, Lewis, Pasquel, and Turner, 1965), gel-diffusion precipitin (Maddison, 1965;Powell, Maddison, Wilmot, and Elsdon-Dew, 1965), and immunofluorescence techniques (Jeanes, 1964(Jeanes, , 1966.…”