[Hypercholesterolemia reduction in children and adolescents after two years of intervention].

Introduction: Hypercholesterolemia, one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, can be detected since childhood. The early detection and a suitable educational process would allow to generate changes of habits and to decrease its prevalence. In 2003, total cholesterol (TC) > 170 mg/dl was found in 39.

Antibacterial IgE antibodies in children.

The presence of specific IgE antibodies directed against common microorganisms was analyzed in a population of children. These antibodies included Escherichia coli, Proteus spp., Pseudomonas spp.

[Outbreak of hospital infection, due to members of the Klebsielleae tribe, in an intensive care unit for infants].

At the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Provincial Regional Hospital, in Río Cuarto, Argentina, nearly all hospitalized infants showed clinical symptoms of septicaemia and gastroenteritis. Neither Salmonella nor Shigella were found in the stool cultures, but Klebsiella pneumoniae was isolated as predominant flora. Three haemocultures displayed K.

[Levamisol in the treatment of recurrent urinary tract infections].

Levamisole, a widely used antihelminthic drug, possesses immunotropic properties. It has been proved that children with recurrent infections of the respiratory tract who were given the drug, were capable of preventing the repetition of the infections. Twenty-seven (27) children with recurrent urinary tract infections without structural malformations were studied and in all of them, a diminished cellular immunity was detected (blastic transformation of lymphocytes, rosettes of T lymphocytes and the skin tests).